Re: Potential help for VIA problems and ASUS motherboards

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 16:29:37 EDT

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    John Cavan wrote:
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I've seen a lot of messages regarding problems with the VIA chipset...
    > I've experienced them myself.
    >
    > Anyways, I just put in a new ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard, BIOS revision
    > 1004. Once installed, I ran into a raft of problems when IO-APIC was
    > enabled... and discovered that ASUS had a BIOS update (revision 1007)
    > available. Once the BIOS was updated and MPS 1.4 support was disabled,
    > everything has been working fine, including USB with IO-APIC enabled. I
    > also don't seem to be getting the timer problem anymore.
    >
    > Anyways, if you have one of these boards, you may want to flash your
    > BIOS and see if the problems are fixed. YMMV, but it worked for me.

    I'm curious if 2.4.5-pre3 works for you... when using MPS 1.4, or,
    without the BIOS update.

    Regards,

            Jeff 

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