hi

tried installing several 64 bit distros and have problems mboard is a gigabyte g8kns skt 754 version 2 with nforce 3 and sempron 64bit 3000 cpu.

Mandriva 2006 works fine , other distros suse , debian etc hang on powernowd or just after initialising the kdm login screen.


anyone have similar probs and found a solution?

have tried disabling apic , lapic and apm with no success.

psu and memory check out ok and in any event this would not explain why mandriva works and nothing else!!?




cheers

cm

Hi,

How many memory DIMMS do you have in the board and are they dual sided or single sided? I had a similar problem with 64 bit distros on a Gigabyte K8NSC-939. When I was using a single sided DIMM along with a dual sided DIMM. The BIOS flagged it as single channel memory. When the 64 bit distros I was using loaded the kernel, it kept giving DMA timeout errors like there was something wrong with the hard drive. It turned out to be a BIOS issue. BIOS version F8 for the K8NSC-939 seems to have fixed the problem for me. If BIOS report single channel memory when your system boots and you are getting the same erros, you might try a later version BIOS. If there is one.



Stan

i have matching pair 2 x 512mb kingston ddr 3200 CL3

i have an old geforce 4000mx agp 8x video card in
1 x dvdrw pioneer 110
1 x 80gb 8mbcache hdd

updated bios to f15(i think) Oct last year still same!
and thats it!

seems odd that only one distro seems to work flawlessly!

cheers

cm

It looks like F18 is the latest BIOS for the board you have. You might try that if the version you have isn't F18.

Does the 32 bit distros work Ok?

With all the little gotchas here and there on 64 bit, like no 64 bit flash plugin, trouble with 64 bit video tools and so on. I went back to 32 bit. Perhaps all the problems I had will be corrected before too long. Having a mix of 32 bit and 64 bit apps is a real pain in the rear. IMO.


Stan

mandriva works , knoppix 32bit works , kanotix 2006 hangs - 32bit and 64bit, Suse 10 hangs but gets to kdm and works for random period of time.

not tried any others as yet........

i agree totally now - though it seemed like a good idea at the time!!

:-(