[dundee] A8v Deluxe Socket 939 Motherboard

Thu Mar 25 16:52:40 UTC 2010

Hi Gordon,

Thanks again for your kind offer, it'll really help get me out of this sticky situation. At the minute I'm having to make do with my netbook as every one of my numerous machines has some sort of issue with it - having very back luck as of late :/

I've had a little look and it appears my motherboard was a completely different chipset and design. Mine is a DFI LanParty UT4 (off the top of my head) and is PCI-Express based. With that said, the RAM and Drives will be compatible so it's win-win versus a machine that is unstable.

Unfortunately I can't make it tonight as a deadline is looming but I'll see what I can do for next week.

I'll happily take the graphics card along with this as I am not sure I have any AGP cards left (!!!). I only have an nvidia quadro PCI card which does not play well with Xen kernels unfortunately :( - I'll let you know if one turns up as I don't need a card so powerful as long as it'll work with recent distributions out of the box.

As for my "unstable" kit, anyone who knows their electronics are welcome to have it if you think you can fix it, or make use of some of the parts. I suspect it's a either a hairline fracture or the capacitors are dud but it's all beyond me.

On a side note, any ath9k users here? Having problems with 2.6.32-ARCH where wifi will drop out and kernel panic after 20~500MB transfer redenering my laptop mostly useless.

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "gordon dunlop" <zubenel at fedoraproject.org>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 25 March, 2010 2:54:31 PM
Subject: Re: [dundee] A8v Deluxe Socket 939 Motherboard

On 25 March 2010 14:19, Sean McRobbie < lug at seany.us > wrote: 

Hi Gordon, 

This would be perfect for me as I have a similar machine which keeps randomly powering off on me. I finally bit the bullet about a week ago and bought new kit, only to find I need to return the lot as it's faulty :( 

Not sure if its the CPU or Motherboard (eliminated everything else) so it would be perfect to be able to replace the whole lot in which case I can stop tearing my hair out trying to fix the old + new kit. 

I built my Linux cluster and other computers a few years ago using these motherboards. All have run fine until one went last year. Seemingly if your power supply goes it can cause a voltage spike in the motherboard whereby it will not post. Even changing the BIOS chip with new eeproms does not work i.e. motherboard is dead. So it is susceptible to power supply spikes. Other problems has been reported on new motherboards where it can be fussy in the memory used or sometimes the memory controller through the B1 slot causes it not to post (remove the memory from B1 slot and put it into the A1 slot). Some problems has been reported with some CPU's if the BIOS has not been updated to include support for that CPU. If you get no bleeps from your speaker with just the CPU in then the motherboard can be reckoned to be faulty. These boards are getting like gold dust now so I am glad I can offer it to you, it was working OK last time it was used. I will bring it along tonight if you are at the meeting or we can make other arrangements if you wish. 

The 6800GT is still on offer if anyone wants it. 

Gordon 

In other news, I have similar kit I need to get rid of if anyone is interested. 

Regards, 
Sean McRobbie 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon dunlop" < zubenel at fedoraproject.org > 
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" < dundee at lists.lug.org.uk > 
Sent: Thursday, 25 March, 2010 12:55:28 PM 
Subject: [dundee] A8v Deluxe Socket 939 Motherboard 

Whilst tripping over cases of IT junk (must have mass clear out next month) looking for floppy cables, I came across a couple of items that can be offered to a good home now. 

1. A8v Deluxe socket 939 (AMD) motherboard with AGP graphics + AMD 3800 cpu + 512MB DDR 400 (PC3200) memory. Cables, user guide and original box provided. 

2. Nvidia 6800 GT AGP graphics card with arctic cooling NV silencer (monster of a card). Cables, user guide and original box provided. 

Contact me off list if interested, I can bring them down to tonight's meeting if required. 

Gordon 

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