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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] MSI K7T Trubo Motherboard
From:       Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps () jlkreps ! net>
Date:       2001-04-29 1:12:22
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It's a real problem involving the transfer of files larger than 100MB,
when you have an AMD with an affected VIA chipset, two IDE HD's
and an SB card.   It has prevented me from using my  PleXStore
8432Ti CDRW.  I haven't taken the time to get the BIOS flash yet
but I will soon.
JLK

On Saturday 28 April 2001 10:33, Keith Gibbons wrote:

> > Hi,
> I have a MSI 6330 and 6340 boards with a 1100Mhz Athlon and 800mhz
> Duron respectively. I have them in operation for the last 3 - 4
> months. I have had no problems at all in the way you describe. I
> have never had a Linux crash on either of the machines. I would
> look elsewhere for the problem - maybe memory or video card.
>
> Regards,
> Keith Gibbons, Ireland
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>   From: jayhen
>   To: suse
>   Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 4:18 PM
>   Subject: [SLE] MSI K7T Trubo Motherboard
>
>
>   Approximately three weeks ago I purchased the following system:
>
>   AMD 1.2Ghz 266Mhz FSB
>   MSI K7T Turbo (MS6330) ATA 100 controller
>   384 MB geheugen
>   Matrox 40GB UDMA 100/7200RPM HardDisk
>   Leadtek NVIDIA TNT-2 M64 32MB TV Out AGP    videocard
>   Floppy
>   DVD ROM 12x/CD40x IDE Creative
>   Soundblaster Live Value 1024
>   CD-Rewriter 16x10x40 Plexwriter IDE
>   etc.
>
>   I installed WindowsMe on a 6 GB partition to be able to burn CD
> and play games and installed Linux on the rest of the hard drive.
> The installation of both operating systems went perfectly.
>
>   I started Linux up and started copying files from my older Linux
> computer to this computer. I immediately noticed that Linux began
> to hang temporarily and get very choppy and slow during the file
> transfers. I thought the problems were due to the network. So I
> copied files from one dir to another dir on the same computer and
> the same problem occured.
>
>   Now totally pissed off at Linux I booted to Windows to see how
> windows was doing. Windows was worst, the computer locked up
> totally until the file transfer was finished.
>
>   So now totally pissed off I tried to return or get my computer
> fixed and was told that my problems were totally normal. So I asked
> the salesman to show me on another system (Different type of
> motherboard) to see if the same problem would occur. It didn't and
> was told I couldn't compare appels with oranges. The other
> motherboard was a MSI K7T Pro-2 A
>
>   The computer that I'm currently using is a AMD Athlon 500Mhz
> system and I have never had this problem. After trying to convince
> me that all computers will pause/ lock up during file transfers
> without success the salesman started to get aggressive.  I almost
> punched him in the mouth but decided to stay calm.  After refusing
> to acknowledge that there is a problem with the MSI K7T Turbo
> (MS6330) motherboard, he basically called me stupid and to get the
> hell out of the store.  I left after getting his name and lets just
> say he hasn't heard the last of me yet.
>
>   My questions are:
>   1:  does anyone else have, had or have heard of this problem?
>   2:  are there bug fixes to correct this problem? If so where can
> I get the files.
>
>   I noticed that there is a VIA 686B southbridge data-corruption
> bug fix for Asus but not for MSI or have I just not found it yet.
>
>   Anyones help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>   Regards,
>
>   Jay

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