Solaris 11.1 on Supermicro X10SAT mobo problems:

When I try to run liveUSB Solaris 11.1 on the motherboard Supermicro X10SAT with an Intel Xeon E3-1245v3 it does not work well. The "Device Driver Utility" reports three problems:
-Network... Ethernet controller
-................Ethernet controller
-Other...... Intel Corporation Lynx Point Kt Controller
Can I solve these problems in some way? The X10SAT has intel i210 and i217 network interfaces. Can I download drivers from somewhere? And, Solaris also reports errors during boot up of the USB live stick, dmesg shows:
[ID 946290 kern.warning] WARNING: audiohd#0: timeout when get response from codec: wid=4, verb=0x0f02, param=0x004c
... param=0x004e, param=0x0050, etc
[ID 555615 daemon.warning] System is not registered with Auto Service Request. Please register system using asradm(1M) or visit http://www.oracle.com/asr for more information
[ID 295310 user.error] [(null) pid.c: Daemon already running]
PS. Does ZFS support TRIM in Solaris 11.1?

"For the network interface. If the i210 interface is detected as 8086,1533 then you can use the driver/network/ethernet/igb driver that is available with SRU 11 and 12.
The other interface is currently unsupported."
The i210 interface is detected as "8086,1533" but how would I make it work? What is SRU 11 and 12?
As "rukbat" said, I have posted some additional details in another thread. If someone helps me on this one, I will clean this up and write down the solution to help the Solaris community.

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Installing Solaris 10 on VIA EPIA PE10000G mobo + VIA C3 Nehemiah processor

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I recently purchased a VIA EPIA PE10000G motherboard with a VIA C3 Nehemiah 1.0GHz EBGA processor (http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=451).
I am trying to install Solaris 10 08/07 and running into problems with the processor being recognized. In my research, I've found some posts, but alas, I seem to have come to a dead end. Here's what I've done:
Downloaded Solaris, fired up the installation. When the kernel starts booting I get:
"486 processor detected this processor not supported by solaris"
After searching on this error, I conculded that by doing the following, I should be able to get around this problem:
perl -pi -e 's#GenuineIntel#CentaurHauls#g' solaris_cd_1.iso
in order to swap out the vendor string for the processor.
Next, I booted with b -kv to see what would happen. While it seems that I got further along, I now get the following:
"processor does not support cmpxchg8b instruction"
and I get dropped into the kernel debugger which I am not familiar with.
I looked for an exact match for this error in Google and came up with this page as the only hit:
http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/i86pc/vm/hat_i86.c?v=OPENSOLARIS
Even though it says OPENSOLARIS in the URL, I bet it's the same piece of code that I'm hitting when I try to install Solaris 10:
if ((x86_feature & X86_CX8) == 0)
panic("Processor does not support cmpxchg8b instruction");
So my guess is that either x86_feature or X86_CX8 is false, I'm figuring it's the latter since the error message has looks similar to that variable.
Furthermore, I see that the error message exists in several places on the original installation CD:
strings solaris_cd_1.iso |grep cmpxchg8b
Processor does not support cmpxchg8b instruction
Processor does not support cmpxchg8b instruction
Processor does not support cmpxchg8b instruction
Processor does not support cmpxchg8b instruction
cmpxchg8b
cmpxchg8b
cmpxchg8b
cmpxchg8b
I'd really like to get Solaris 10 on this motherboard because I'd like to use it as a small firewall where space is at a premium.
Might anyone have some further suggestions as to what I can do to get this to work? From what I've seen, I think it is possible, it's just a matter of changing something more to the disk image.
thanks,
Geoprge

I did some more research and found a pdf on my processor and here's what I came up with:
0 = The CPUID instruction does not report the presence of the CMPXCHG8B instruction
(CX8 = 0). The instruction actually exists and operates correctly, however.
1 = The CPUID instruction reports that the CMPXCHG8B instruction is supported
(CX8 = 1).
From what I read here http://www.via.com.tw/download/mainboards/6/13/VIA_C3_EBGA%20datasheet110.pdf it would seem that the default is CX8=0 and I'm guessing that if it were 1, then I'd at least get past this error message.
Maybe there's a way to trick the installation image by changing the code that checks for this value similar to what I did for the vendor processor ID string? Seems to me that if I find where it checks for the CX8 value and reverse the logic, the installation would continue...

Solaris 7 Software Installation on x86 System Problem

Experienced error message "disk not found" just prior to Solaris execution of final installation process. This was during Interactive installation. Also recieved "cannot determine boot device name". Could not use set env command in order to set the boot device. It is telling us that there is no boot device set up. Need some information/commands that will enable me to get over this problem and complete the software installation.
This could very well be a simple fix, I just don't have the knowledge bas eto effect it. Please contact at [email protected] or 540 657-6585.
Thanks
Ken

I hope this can help you. I recently posted the similar question on the development group and got help from 'agood214' which I think is the best answer.
(All credit should be to agood214)
Okay, here's the followup and results for my install method.
1. It worked
2. Partition magic and Boot magic are not needed to make this happen.
3. Partition and boot magic do not recognize the solaris partitions on the second master IDE. In fact they give an error ( #110) and offer to "fix" the dirve which will corrupt the install of Solaris.
4. I had scanned the newsgroups and found a utiliuty called XOSL - Extended Operating System Loader at http://www.xosl.org it works like and absolute charm!
=== Other installation notes - mostly my machine is not on the Hardware Comaptibility List but I figured I'd give it a try. System is a K6-III 450 Mhz ( not on HCL) Iwill XA-100A Plus motherboard ( not on HCL ) Sblive PCI valueboard ( not on HCL ) Siig high speed serial board - PCI (not on HCL) Diamond 56k PCI modem ( not on HCL ) I had to remove the modem and serial card as well as dispable PnP in the BIOS.
Then everything loaded pretty normal.
====
agood214 was using two physical drivers, but I tried on one 13 GB Hard Drive with 4 partitions (Solaris7, Win98, Win2000, data-partition) and working beautifully. In my case, I didn't have to disable anything in the BIOS to get them work. Just read though the manual in XOSL if you want to use this boot-loader and it is very easy to install. NOTE: you can not use 'instant boot' in XOSL to boot with the combination of WIN-OS and Solaris. Besides it, everything is prefect.

Solaris 8 on IBM Thinkpad T20 - Display Problem!

Hi Forum,
I have Solaris 8 07/01 installed on this IBM Tninkpad T20. The problem has been the display. It has S3 Savage IX 8. I need help to resolve this issue. Here's what I have done.
After installation of OS, latest patches were applied. Installed XFree86 without any problems. Configured and generated a /XF86Config.new file from /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -configure. The XF86Config.new was copied as /XFConfig and /etc/X11/XFConfig. This file looks good detecting the Savage driver with this sentence in it: "Savage(0): VESA VBE DDC Support". I understand that this adapter has been picked up with correct configuration.
When I run XFree86, it just displays a grey screen with the mouse cursor in the middle of the screen, and no other action after that. No cursor movement or any response from the keyboard. Leading to cold boot of the system. in short, XFree86, did'nt quite work as it should have.
As an alternative, I have installed these two packages and patches for extended XSun support, which uses this existing XFree86 drivers. I downloaded and "pkgadd"ed the SUNWxf86u & SUNWxf86r and the patches, 109401-10 and 108653-30. Afterwhich, I did find additional adapters showing up in "kdmconfig". I did find Savage IX and other drivers which were'nt found earlier. Selected this driver, with various montitor types in the next scrreen, was unsuccessful in displaying the screen. I have tried the same with VESA and VGA compatible drivers too and different monitor types. Not getting the right display. I have to try the Xig patch. But the existing XFree86 and XSun should still do the work. Any Suggestions & help appreciated.

Regarding T20 laptops with Solaris8. See www.egroups.com Solaris on Intel archive. You can see that Solaris 8 can boot from this kind of hardware. One solution would be:
-Install from the network. Jumpstart installation if your model of laptop has a builtin NIC.
-See more details about this on Jumpstart installation.

Solaris Name Service Cache and Directory Proxy Problem

We have some Solaris 10 clients ldapcliented to a Directory Proxy Server. After 15 minutes, the Solaris name service cache will fail to communicate to the proxy instance and the proxy instance's readconnectionsrefused attribute will start incrementing.
At first it seemed we would need to increase the worker-threads and num-bind-limit, but those do not fix the problem.
At the same time the name-service-cache starts failing, I am still able to query and search the proxy. I have set up a Jmeter test which continues to run and they never fail.
It seems very consistent that the problem with the name-service-cache occurs every 15 minutes and I am able to reproduce this at the client's site and in my lab. Restarting either the proxy or the name-service-cache clears the problem.
Has anyone else seen this problem?
Edited by: 957466 on Sep 6, 2012 9:11 AM

The idle-timeout on DSEE was set to none, which I believe is the default. I tried setting it to 1200 and 2400 seconds without success.
h3. get-ldap-data-source-pool-prop
<pre>
client-affinity-bind-dn-filters : any
client-affinity-criteria : connection
client-affinity-ip-address-filters : any
client-affinity-policy : write-affinity-after-write
client-affinity-timeout : 20s
description : -
enable-client-affinity : false
load-balancing-algorithm : proportional
minimum-total-weight : 100
proportion : 100
sample-size : 100
</pre>
h3. get-ldap-data-source-prop
<pre>
bind-dn : none
bind-pwd : none
client-cred-mode : use-client-identity
connect-timeout : 10s
description : -
down-monitoring-interval : inherited
is-enabled : true
is-read-only : false
ldap-address : localhost
ldap-port : ldap
ldaps-port : ldaps
monitoring-bind-dn : none
monitoring-bind-pwd : none
monitoring-bind-timeout : 5s
monitoring-entry-dn : ""
monitoring-entry-timeout : 5s
monitoring-inactivity-timeout : 2m
monitoring-interval : 30s
monitoring-mode : proactive
monitoring-retry-count : 3
monitoring-search-filter : (objectClass=*)
monitoring-search-scope : base
num-bind-incr : 10
num-bind-init : 2
num-bind-limit : 1024
num-read-incr : 10
num-read-init : 2
num-read-limit : 1024
num-write-incr : 10
num-write-init : 2
num-write-limit : 1024
proxied-auth-use-v1 : false
ssl-policy : never
use-read-connections-for-writes : false
use-tcp-keep-alive : true
use-tcp-no-delay : true
</pre>

Solaris 10 branded zone VM Template Install Problem

Hi,
I don't seem to be able to install the template on a system that uses an aggregate NIC (aggr0). The template install script is looking for physical NICs, which it can't use since the NICs are assigned to the aggregate link.
Any suggestions for a clean solution or workaround?
Thanks

On line 1 of /tmp/zcfg.final:
SYSsolaris10: No such zone configured
Problem configuring the zone10 zone, exitingThis indicates one of two things:
1. You are not running Solaris 11. You may be running Solaris 11 Express, where that template zone name would have been SUNWsolaris10 rather than SYSsolaris10.
2. You do not have the solaris10 brand installed. You can fix that with:
# pkg install pkg:/system/zones/brand/brand-solaris10In either case, it would probably be better for the script that wraps the archive to check before trying to install the zone to give a more helpful error message.
rm: Cannot remove any directory in the path of the current working directory
//bootimage.7Oayzm/bootstrap
rm: Unable to remove directory //bootimage.7Oayzm: Directory not emptyThis seems to be an unrelated bug in the error handling routines in the script that wraps the archive. I'll raise this thread to the attention of those that assemble the VM Templates.

Solaris 8 4/01 Intel Instalation/Boot Problems

I am TRYING to install the Solaris 8 for Intel and i am having several problems.
I managed to solve some of them but now i am stuck.
I am running a PII with a an Adapetc 2940 and a scsi disk.
I am using interactive instalation one software cd 1.
I am creating 2 partions one X86 boot with 10 Mb and another one of solaris type with 8500 Mb.
in the second one i created a slice for root and another one for swap.
The problem is after all the instalation completes the system wont boot !
Any ideia why ?
I created a dos boot partion and it boots fine.
How can i create a boot disk ?
How can access the file system a just created to check ?
How can i rewrite the mbr ?
I am using one disk and for solaris only, am i creating the right partion schema ?
Please help.
Thanks in Advance,
Pedro Oliveira

Howdy,
I am please to see someone with ethics responding to some basic questions of a solaris install problem on an intel platform. I have been working with solaris on sparc for a while, not I am trying the Intel side of the house.
I am having a similar problem as you mentioned. I have a Compaq Deskpro system with an IDE 2gb disk to install Solaris 8 4/01 on. I get all the way through the instructions to #27 on the DOC CD to the reboot of the system and the pulling out of the Installation CD. It tells me that I will need to wait for the system to reset then pull out the CD before the sytem completes its Memory test and HW detection.
I think I am removing the CD when this is being done, but the only thing I am seeing is a compaq logo and an hourglass forever....the screen seems to hang there forever.
Should I leave the installation CD in the drive longer?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Dennis

Solaris 9 sendmail (8.12.10) configuration problem

Hi,
I have a problem with sendmail 8.12.10 on Solaris 9. I generate my sendmail.cf file using m4 *.mc files which adds the genericstable and masquerading features etc.
I use the genericstable to rewrite emails from certain senders on the Solaris server to another address; eg.
root [email protected]
This way system emails sent by the root account will appear to the receipient as coming from [email protected] and replies to these emails (including mail bounces) will go the local Sys Admins.
With Solaris 9's sendmail (8.12.10) the genericstable sender address rewriting no longer works. Sendmail (8.11.3) on Solaris 8 using a sendmail.cf file generated from the same sendmail.mc source works fine.
The strange things is that in sendmail rule test mode (sendmail -bt -d21.4 -d21.12 -d31.2 -d0.4) entering the ruleset
3,1,EnvFromSMTP,4 rootprocesses the generictable and rewrites the sender address and returns:
final returns: UnixTeam @ domain . com
Can any sendmail GURUS out there please give me a clue what I'm missing or what needs to be changed in my sendmail.mc for Sendmail version 8.12.x??
Thanks.

How about issues with sendmail 8.12.12 ?
When I setup sendmail.mc for genericstable, see below:
divert(0)dnl
VERSIONID(`@(#)subsidiary.mc 1.10 (Sun) 12/14/00')
OSTYPE(`solaris8')dnl
define(`ALIAS_FILE',`/etc/mail/aliases')dnl
DOMAIN(`solaris-generic')dnl
FEATURE(`msp', `[firewall.com]')dnl
dnl
define(`SMART_HOST',`firewall.com')dnl
FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)dnl
FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl
GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/genericsdomain')dnl
MAILER(`local')dnl
MAILER(`smtp')dnl
LOCAL_NET_CONFIG
R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#esmtp $@ $2.$m $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3
compile...everything looks good
/usr/lib/sendmail -bt
ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked)
Enter <ruleset> <address>
/map generics rootmap_lookup: generics (root) returns [email protected] (0)
/quitbut when I send out mail to root (mailx) FROM does not invoke the new value
MAIL From:<[email protected]> SIZE=76
250 2.5.0 Address and options OK.
RCPT To:<[email protected]>
Am I missing something ?
Also notice that sendmail does not use the aliases db
Is it necessary for the sendmail daemon to be running ?
We just process saved messages /usr/lib/sendmail -q in crontab (outgoing only / no inbound mesages)
thanks for any assistance

Solaris 10 x86 64-bit wireless connection problem

I installed Solaris 10 x86 32-bit on my laptop together with Fedora 10 (Linux) and Windows XP.
When I boot up Fedora 10 and WinXP, these two OS are able to find the wireless driver automatically, but Solaris 10 failed.
When I do prtconf -pv, I saw my wireless card is listed in the output.
So I update the /boot/solaris/devicedb/master and /etc/driver_aliases with my wireless card id - pci168c,001a
Then do sys-unconfig and reboot
But after reboot, Solaris still only tries to configure the ethernet card (NIC) rather than checking out the wireless connection.
I think this might be a design flaw for Solaris 10. If it runs on x86, most users would have wireless connection, not just land line connection.
Does anyone here have a solution for this problem?
Thanks a lot!

I assume that when solaris 10 boots up, it only checks the land line NIC card, not the wireless card. If there is no lan connection, then so be it.
Is that right?No! :-)
nwam only supports one device but the device is selectable. physical should activate all devices regardless. So if your Wifi isn't working then I would use wificonfig to see what it can see. Check the man page for scan and showstatus options. Then you'll know what it's seeing.
alan

Solaris 10 management console... login problem!

Hi all!
I have started correctly the solaris management console server using /etc/init.d/init.wbem start.
I have launched the console correctly too (/usr/sbin/smc)
But when I try to access some aministrative tool (such as user management or disk management), it prompts a message asking me for the root password, which I wrote correctly too... but it always returns a "login failed" message...
Any idea??? Anyone else have the same problem???
Thanks.

Yes, I have the exact same problem. For me the problem is caused by the fact that solaris management console will not work with blowfish or md5 hashed passwords for root. Since I enabled and created a root password using md5, I cannot use the management console. This is what sun support wrote back to me about this:
PROBLEM SUMMARY :
as root. Root password is rejected. Even when run 'smc' as root user,
asks for root password again and rejects it
SOLUTION :
have found many instances stating blowfish and SMC do not work..I did
find one potential workaround, but it may or may not work.If you want
totry it here is what they suggested..
To use SMC, must disable non-default password algorithm,
Set the CRYPT_DEFAULT line in /etc/security/policy.conf to:
CRYPT_DEFAULT=__unix__
Then delete the SMC users password with passwd -d, then set a new password:
# passwd -d root
passwd: password information changed for root
# passwd root
New Password:
Re-enter new Password:
passwd: password successfully changed for root
Try it on as test box in case it messes up SMC
Other than that it looks like it is not compatible
Odd that the 'most advanced operating system' behaves in this manner.

Solaris 9 / GNOME 2.0 / SunPCI II problem

Hello. I have Solaris 9 on a SunBlade 100 with SunPCI II (running Windows 2000 Professional). Both OSes have the latest patches. When running under Gnome 2.0 the SunPCI/Windows requires multiple clicks of the mouse to affect any controls. For example, launching IE from the taskbar ought to take one click and it does this when running under CDE. But under Gnome I have to double, triple, quadruple click before it will launch. I cannot open the start menu because one-click does not affect it, but double-click opens and then immediately closes it. Other controls have similar problems. Native Solaris/Gnome apps are not affected - only Windows/SunPCI. Has anyone run into this strange problem, and if so what is the solution? Thanks.
Viren Patel
Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin

Personally I think JDS3 is a bit awkward and
certainly not as nice to use as Gnome2. I was
disappointed to see the CDE apps menu has disappeared
too, I had to figure out where certain apps are on
the HDD, something I never thought to do in the past.
Specifically I was looking for SMC, which I
eventually found in /usr/sadm/bin/smc.
I was under the impression from Sun's own
documentation, that Gnome would be the replacement
for CDE, I figured they'd included it with latter
Solaris9 installs as a stop gap. I also noticed that
when I installed Solaris10, I saw a message box
mention KDE a few times so I expected to see an
option for KDE as well. Dunno if it's hidden away
somewhere but I'd sure like to know what it was all
about.I wonder whether one can get rid of some of the JDS stuff and just use the GNOME part. I never understood why so many of the desktop environments try to immitate Windows even to the extent that there is a launch (aka start) button.
Matthias

BEA Tuxedo and Sun Solaris V2.6 C++ Compiler V5.0 Problem

Hi Friends,
We are having problem with Tuxedo servers compiling/build using the Sun Solaris V2.6 Workshop C++ compiler V5.0. The Tuxedo servers do not boot up. The servers hang in tpopen() ATMI call. We used dbx to determine this.
The same code when build using C compiler works fine. It seems that C++ Compiler V5.0 has some trouble with BEA Tuxedo. We even tried compat=4 option which creates V4.0 compatible object library. It also does not get us thru.
Is anyone using this compiler for BEA tuxedo development?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Best Regards
Manoj SASIDHARAN

Hi again!
Did some investigation, found this:
http://www.bea.com/support/askbea/tux/S-05487.shtml
Best Regards
Sven Björkegren
Manoj SASIDHARAN skrev:
Hi Friends,
We are having problem with Tuxedo servers compiling/build using the Sun Solaris V2.6 Workshop C++ compiler V5.0. The Tuxedo servers do not boot up. The servers hang in tpopen() ATMI call. We used dbx to determine this.
The same code when build using C compiler works fine. It seems that C++ Compiler V5.0 has some trouble with BEA Tuxedo. We even tried compat=4 option which creates V4.0 compatible object library. It also does not get us thru.
Is anyone using this compiler for BEA tuxedo development?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Best Regards
Manoj SASIDHARAN[sven.bjorkegren.vcf]

KT6 Delta MOBO Problem

Just what you need on New Years Eve!
I just purchased the following hardware to upgrade my current system.
KT6 Delta MS-6590 (v2.X) TX Mainboard Version 2.0 G52-M6590XD Mobo
AMD Athelon XP 2600 with L2 Cache of 512 KB Quantispeed
PNY Technologies 256MB DIMM DDR 333 Mhz-184pins Memory OEM
NVIDIA Sparkle GeForce4 MX 440-8X AGP8X 3D Graphic Accelerator
Microsoft Internet Keyboard
Current system is as follows.
American Megatrends Inc. Mobo
Intel Pentium III 550MHz
128MB Ram Installed
S3 Inc. Savage4 (Engineering Bit Flip) 1024 x 768 32-bit Video Resolution
19GB Hard Disk
Mitsumi CD-ROM FX4824TIB Max Read Speed 8467KB/s (48X)
Windows 98 operating systems
Now your probably saying “Yeah so what…!”, well here is where the fun starts.
I went out to get some more memory and asked a member of staff at the store if the new memory would improve gaming on my PC. He explained that this would not resolve the problem and a new processor was the best option. Unfortunately due to the age of my motherboard he advised me to buy a new one along with a new graphics card and memory to boot along with the new Athelon.
I removed all old hardware, installed the new as per the manual and………nothing. Fan on the processor is working, as is the one in the box but apart from a LED light on the front nothing works. The D-Bracket 2 Connector:JLED1 has all four lights on which indicates that the processor is damaged or not installed properly. Re-installed but no joy still getting the same four lights. Is it really that simple…is my processor damaged or not installed properly? Find it hard to believe that anybody could install it wrong, as there is only one way to install it.
I also have two sets of Serial ATA Cables left over. One Black at both ends with Orange Cable and the other I presume is a power Cable (4 pins) connected via two black plugs using two black, a red and yellow wire. Also the audio lead for the CD ROM cannot be connected to the MOBO but I am told this is not a problem.
Now it’s at this point you hopefully will start asking me about jumpers. Could this be the problem? Or maybe my operating system does not support this motherboard. I tried to install the software that MSI supplied but it told me I needed windows SE etc.
As you can probable tell this is my first upgrade and maybe the Athelon is buggered and I will be knocking on the stores doors Friday morning, PC in hand asking them to have a look. But I don’t want to do that…I want to solve this on my own with a little help from you.
Just to prove I’m not a total fool I have reinstalled all the old hardware so I can obtain some help over the New Year using the old set up.
Look forward to your advice
RJL :^(

New system is up and running thanks to the new PSU and all your help. Noticed a few other people have had similar problems with the PSU. It shuts down now so quick that I don't have time to get my butt out of the seat.
The D-Bracket is still showing all 4 green, lights indicating that the operating system is booting. I presume this is ok?
I'm certain that I have connected everthing up from the power ok but there is a three-pin head connector which I was not sure where it should go. It would either go in the NBFAN1 or the SFAN1 if any...any ideas?
In device manager I have a few unknown devices where the driver has not installed (code 28).
PCI ETHERNET CONTROLLER
PCI MULTIMEDIA AUDIO DEVICE
PCI RAID CONTROLLER
PCI UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS
Can you give me any pointers?
NVIDIA WDM VIDEO CAPTURE (UNIVERSAL)
This is either not present, not working properly, or does not have all drivers installed (code 10)
It says try upgrading drivers for this device so I will see if I can download some.
I would image the above is why I am getting no sound when I play a CD?
Also the Drivers & Utilities CD which came with the KT6 Delta will not load as it is asking for OS Windows 98SE and above. Do I need anything on this Disk or is it a load of rubbish which will fill up my C-Drive and never get used.
Also getting the annoying network passwork request when I boot up...how do you get rid of that again?
Look forward to you replies
RJL :~)

K7N2 Delta2 mobo problems - no post!

Hy I am new to this forum.
I have the folowing problem with my computer: I use my computer for about 2 hours and then my LCD closes and it posts "No signal". I restart the computer and the screen is blank. If I reset the bios on my mobo then my computer starts running again - otherwise it does not post.(if I change the Video Card without resetting the bios it still does not start). Forgot to mention that it only starts correctly after a 5h of no power running through the Mobo - if I reset the bios earlier then it still does not work, also tested the Mobo with another CPU, with diffrent RAM and diffrent video cards.
Specifications:
Mobo: K7N2 Delta2 LSR
CPU: AthlonXP 2400+
Graphic: Leadtek Geforce 6600gt tdh
RAM: 1Gb Geil, (2x256+512) - same type (Value 400)
HDD: S-ATA 160GB Segate
PSU: 450 Sirtek
Audio: Audigy 2

Finger on North heatsink with fan, nice and cool. Finger on South, bare chip, quite uncomfortable.
I guess you could say I am a dabbler with digital audio. I expect it to be perfect, like high quality analog, on board. But digital brings a big problem, more in a moment. I looked at that XFI out of curiosity, not impressed, just a jump forward, but still major shortfalls in my opinion.
Even with analog, solid state has its problems although they have gotten much better but it has a record of being noisy compared to high quality tube circuits.
But going digital - problem- take this example. First, although claims are that no human can expect to hear a 24KHz tone, tests reveal that people perceive its being missing when it is dropped from the audio signal. Maybe we feel it through the hair on our bodies or the vibrations on our eyeballs. But to a true audiophile it likely comes across as that sensation of something being wrong that causes ones hair to stand on end and bring on the fight or flight instincts.
That being established that true audio should carry the frequency of a piccolo or cymbal and all the overtones, likely way higher than 24K, lets take a look at a pure 24KHz tone. If you take a single 24KHz sinusoidal wave and convert it to digital at a 24KHz rate, that sinusoidal becomes a very small spike. At what rate would you have to convert/sample it to get a near same representation digitally? (Admittedly I get a bit confused with band widths and sampling rates) But, just to do it in stereo, one spike per channel = 48K. Quad=96 And up according to how many channels, such as 7.1 actually being 8 channels=192. Some multichannel DVD's are encoded at that rate and some DVD players sample at that rate, but in the world of computer audio, although some of the Audigy's claimed 192, they split it between I/O.
The XFi seems to be taking a step in the right direction, that is doing a quite high rate of doing as much as possible on the card rather than everything having to move across the PCI buss. But according to a diagram I looked at, it still uses the computers RAM which means moving a lot of stuff on that buss. If the guts of that card are worthy, the next logical would be gobs of RAM on the audio card.
I am not sure what Intel's forray into ASIO was, but it got dropped as near as I can tell. It may have been a low tech approach to adding such infrastructure to MOBOs, sort of like their original roll out of AGP video, on board and used system RAM, but provided an upgrade path to better aftermarket AGP cards. And such approach with the audio was likely on the cheap to provide upgrade path for compliant audio cards, but because it sounded worse than current mid-price cards they could not get demand for it.
My thinking was that it's architecture would be the equivalent of creating a very high quality stand alone audio box(all work done inside), such as some available for a few thousand, and then interfacing it with the computer as a command controller, not processor.
Norman

KM2M mobo problem with Duron 1.1

To all who have had problems with a KM2M motherboard. Factory setting for the mobo is with the jumper at 133 FSB. The mobo doesn't seem to have autodetection of FSB since when I installed the Duron 1.1 Ghz it booted up with the Duron at 1.5 Ghz. Needless to say the mobo did POST once and the second time crashed miserably.
If the CPU isn't burned up in the first instance and you're lucky just take out the jumper and switch it to the 100 FSB setting. The jumper is in between the AGP and first PCI slot. Once that's done the mobo should POST just nicely and the Duron will live happily ever after ;-).
Can't complain much, but MSI guys you should have put a note for complete newbies that you if have a Duron processor it might be good to switch the jumper to 100 FSB cause the board doesn't do it on its own. If there's a BIOS update later on that auto detects the FSB the better for us.
The KM2M is a very good mobo and I'm very excited that I've managed to build a PC under 200 pounds and a word of warning to potential buyers of this board. Make sure when you buy to check if the board has AGP or not! Ask the supplier which version it is! You don't want to miss out on having an AGP slot even if the price might be lower by 10%.

Wouldn't you agree though that the manual should mention this in BOLD letters that if you are installing a Duron you should always make sure that you have the proper FSB setting? I mean I'm a newbie at building systems but I always RTFM :D

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