In article <Pine.NEB.4.43.0205141838090.454-100000@angelic.cynic.net>,
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:

Bad memory...

christos

>I've just bought a 1533 MHz Athlon system (Athlon 1800) based on
>the Asus A7V333 motherboard, and I'm having various PCI-related
>problems with it. They seem somewhat dependent on which cards are
>in which slots, but they generally manifest themselves as funny
>characters appearing on the screen, and eventually the screen
>getting garbled. I've even seen this happen in the BIOS, though
>much more rarely than with NetBSD.
>
>Anybody have any thoughts on what might be causing this? I'm a bit
>suspicious of the memory myself, as Asus only certifies certain
>types of PC2700 memory with this system, and the Samsung 512 MB
>DIMM I'm using doesn't seem to be certified. But I also have a few
>older PCI cards in the system (Adaptec 2940UW, Matrox Millenium
>video card, and either a 3c905 or Intel 82558 rev 5 Ethernet);
>might they be part of the problem? Anybody have any thoughts on
>what BIOS settings I might change to see what works and doesn't,
>and narrow down problems?
>
>cjs
>-- 
>Curt Sampson  <cjs@cynic.net>   +81 90 7737 2974   http://www.netbsd.org
>    Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light.  --XTC
>