HARDWARE ECS RX480-A

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[edit] Tested Configuration

[edit] Hardware

  • Video: evga Nvida 6200LE w/ 64MB and Turbo Cache on PCIe
  • CPU: AMD64 3200 rev CG Socket 939
  • RAM: Single 1GB DDR PC3200 Stick in slot 1
  • Hard Drive: 120GB Hitachi UDMA100
  • NIC: Intel e1000 in PCI slot 1
  • 1394: Agere OHCI in PCI slot 2

[edit] Stuff that works

  • Nvidia Video card in ATI PCIe X16 slot
  • AMD PowerNow

[edit] Issues

[edit] IDE Controller: ATIIXP

I had repeated lock ups under load when using this driver in UDMA5 mode. During emerges it would lock the OS up hard and I would have to power down to recover. My work around was to force the UDMA mode to 66MHz and then the board became stable.

Update 2006-09-30: traced to a out of SPEC round IDE cable.

[edit] PCI Slots

The board appears sensitive to which cards you put into which slots. I have a PCI firewire card with an Agere chipset. Installing it in the bottom PCI slot prevented the board from posting.

[edit] APIC errors

Like other ECS boards, this one slowly fills the dmesg ring buffer with APIC Errors. I believe this is related to unserviced interrupts from some piece of hardware and appears to be annoying but harmless.

[edit] Spurious ACPI messages

if you're running acpid your logs will fill up with:

ACPI group thermal_zone / action thermal_zone is not defined

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