[LinuxBIOS] LB vs Factory BIOS -- more weirdness

[Eric Poulsen]

I have done this -- It doesn't cause the problem.  I had the machine off 
for two days with the PS unplugged (no aux power), and the power 
connected disconnected from the MLB.  Booted just fine after that.   I 
think whoever mentioned the CAS setting being too fast might be on the 
right track, but it's weird that the factory BIOS fixes it (for a while).


WRT DMA issue:

(I only booted using LB)

Also, last night, I _hammered_ the southbridge by copying 50M files on 
the HD, FTPing 50Meg files, and Copying 100M files from usb stick to 
HDA.  I ran this for several hours.  The CPU heatsink got pretty warm.  
No crashes.  Previously, just copying from HDA to HDC would crash it, or 
from USB >> HDA, regularly.

So I Power down, Reboot (LB again), restarted the HDA >> HDA copy and 
the FTP.  Froze up within 10 minutes.

I'll re-run the tests tonight using the factory BIOS -- who knows what's 
going to happen.



Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Eric Poulsen wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm conviced this is the case -- I have too many weird issues that 
>> can be fixed by simply flipping back to the factory BIOS, turning the 
>> system on, getting a "bad CMOS" error, then immediately powering off 
>> and switching to LB, which suddenly works again.
>>
>
>
> You could try this: do the exact same test, but turn off the board, 
> *disconnect the power connector*, let it sit 30 seconds, and then put 
> in LB and see if it works or not.
>
> I'd be interested to hear this result.
>
> ron
>