Debian and NF7 Series Board

newgen · 07-20-2003, 03:56 AM

I have assembled a new PC using a NF7-S Abit Motherboard, a AMD 2800+ CPU with 2,0 gig mhz. The System boots up normally. Now I tried to rescue my Debian installation from /dev/hdc2 but when I boot with the debian cd, the System hangs in the line:
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial option enabled

after this line nothing appears. A friend told me i would have to disable acpi with a boot parameter, but I do not know how.

I have also read that this board in bios is undervolted. So i set the cpu power +0.5 Volt. When i rebootet the bios told me that the CPU runs at 1,2 gig and not on 2,0 gig. when I set it to default, the cpu runs at 2.0 ghz again. Normal?

And when I reset the PC, the monitor stays black and gets only a Signal after
unplugging the PC from Power....

Any help installing the debian system would be a help...
thx

dowmun · 07-23-2003, 09:00 AM

Hi,
Since your post is several days old, are you still having the same problems, or have you reinstalled/fixed or acquired a new set of problems? Doubt that I can be of any help, but your story touched my heart, and I didn't want you to feel ignored.

newgen · 07-28-2003, 05:23 PM

I've just booted my system with my old kernel and was able to enter the system. So I compiled a new kernel and after some hours of bug tracking the system runs now.
B.t.w. for everyone with driver Problems:
I used the original driver from Abit supportig the onboard network and sound card. The network card runs fine, but the soundcard driver just hang up my system completely. I know use the snd-intel8x0 module or so. It supports the nforce onboard chipset and works fine. But I have a new question which might be easier ti answer:
When playing a movie with mplayer, the system (2.0 ghz) laggs and mplayer brings up the message about my system beeing to slow because of some reasons... I tried to use other driver with the option -ao oss, but it got worse... any idea? I've read of mplayer using less resources than other players tested but I experienced the opposite.

And thanx for the reply. I was not sure if anyone ever thougt about this post.