only one card in 64 bit slots allowed on A7M266-D

[Alexander Linkenbach]

Hi
I have got an Asus A7M266-D and I am experiencing the following problem:
In the second 64 bit slot sits an LSI21320-R dual channel scsi controller.
But whenever I put another card (32bit) in the other 64 bit slot the system
won't boot. It hangs after grub with a black screen. No splash screen, no
console. It does however boot the Suse 10.0 installation DVD or into
windows from grub. I did use the slots with 32 bit cards only before so
that is not the problem (dip switches on main board are all to off). As I
won't get past the initial ram disc I assume it has to do with the linux
drivers. Can anyone help? I have run out of 32 bit slots on the board and I
need that last slot.
alex
A7M266-D dual Athlon MP 2600+

 

[Peter Wagner]

Hi,
ich habe ein ähnliches Problem mit Grub auch schon gehabt. Du solltest mal
versuchen, mit den erweiterten GRUB Optionen verschiedene Einstellungen zu
testen. Das hatte bei mir auch geholfen.

Schöne Grüße
Peter Wagner

 

[alexd]

Hi
I have got an Asus A7M266-D and I am experiencing the following problem:
In the second 64 bit slot sits an LSI21320-R dual channel scsi controller.
But whenever I put another card (32bit) in the other 64 bit slot the
system won't boot. It hangs after grub with a black screen. No splash
screen, no console. It does however boot the Suse 10.0 installation DVD or
into windows from grub. I did use the slots with 32 bit cards only before
so that is not the problem (dip switches on main board are all to off). As
I won't get past the initial ram disc I assume it has to do with the linux
drivers. Can anyone help? I have run out of 32 bit slots on the board and
I need that last slot.
alex
A7M266-D dual Athlon MP 2600+

I had one of those motherboards, and I found it to be a complete and utter
nightmare. RAM, PSU, you name it, it doesn't like it.

 

[Alexander Linkenbach]

I had one of those motherboards, and I found it to be a complete and utter
nightmare. RAM, PSU, you name it, it doesn't like it.

Actually so far I am so happy that I bought another one for my daughters
computer. (single cpu version). This one (the smp) is a bit picky about ram
though...
alex

 

[iforone]

Hi
I have got an Asus A7M266-D and I am experiencing the following problem:
In the second 64 bit slot sits an LSI21320-R dual channel scsi controller.
But whenever I put another card (32bit) in the other 64 bit slot the system
won't boot. It hangs after grub with a black screen. No splash screen, no
console. It does however boot the Suse 10.0 installation DVD or into
windows from grub. I did use the slots with 32 bit cards only before so
that is not the problem (dip switches on main board are all to off). As I
won't get past the initial ram disc I assume it has to do with the linux
drivers. Can anyone help? I have run out of 32 bit slots on the board and I
need that last slot.
alex
A7M266-D dual Athlon MP 2600+

Don't know if this is helpful;
A mobo with 2 PCI-X slots usually means 2x100MHz bus speed tops, not
2x133MHz (1Channel)...IOW - 1 PCI-X Channel can be up to 1x133MHz, or
2x100MHz, or 4x66MHz (or as in your case, it seems it's 2x66MHz) -- and
because it's only 1 channel, the slowest device will determine the
overall Bus speed of all devices connected to that bus. The 266/533MHz
buses are just DDR(266) and Quad-pumped(533) respectively, running at
the same 133MHz clock speed.