Orville Carter wrote:
> The highpoint controller configuration gave Win98 a very
> difficult time. I had IRQ conflicts with HPT366, the nic, &
> Fireport 40 Scsi controller.That was finally resolved in win98
> (Whew!). Now on to e-smith!
Yeah i had a BP6 once, the highpoint is nothing but problems.
> The cd drive is on the IDE secondary ata33 port - also tried cd
> rom on primary ata33. Ata66 IDE ports are free (and disabled in
> cmos).
Did you try the latest BIOS? even if the highpoint is disabled it can still cause problems
>
> I will try another vga pci card - We have had problems with
> some vga cards. S3 & Trident vga pci cards seem to work
> well with e-smith (and Redhat).
ya S3, Nvidia and Tseng cards works for me no probs @ all
> > > Another thing that comes to mind is, does it freezes
> if you try > removing 1 of the cpus?
>
> Really? No, I have not tried that one ,..yet. This is the third
> dual processor installation we have tried with e-smith. The
> other two are PII 266 & PII350. Installation was a breeze.
> It must work with two processors on board - or its outta he....
yes ofcause it must work whit 2 cpus, what i ment was: does it freezes if theres only 1 cpu in during install, and if not will it freeze if a 2nd is added after install.
If i rember corectly theres a setting in the BIOS caled MIPS or something like that i can be either 1.1 or 1.4 (or was it 1.3) if set to 1.4(3) it makes all kinds of problems in win2K (MIPS is SMP related, i'm not sure exatly what it do) default setting is 1.4(3)
how is it set on yours?
oh ya btw, do you overclock the cpus? (I had 2x366 in my BP6 they ran perfect @ 534MHz)
Regards
Jan