Re: IP43 support

Dumbo a écrit :
> I have got an IP43 board and this morning I built it with a Coolermaster
> Aquagate mini and 2GB of Corsair DDR2 PC6400 XMS2 ram but when I
> attached my 850W alphaCool PSU and tried to switch it on the red LED
> came on ok but refuses to go off. The PC refuses to beep or POST and
> without a manual I am at a lose to know what to do. I will try the
> clear CMOS another time and this time I will remove the battery but I am
> at a loss to explain why it wont POST.
> How do I connect to the CPU fan output when my cooler only needs 3 pins.
> The cooler spins up but the fan on the radiator doesn't could this be
> part of the problem. There are three graphics cards for me to choose
> between but the optical and HDDs aren't connected to enable the board to
> POST safely.
>
> I hope you can help.
>
> Robin

Hi,

I had a similar problem with an IP43 and 2x2GB of Kingston DDR2 PC6400
CL5 (KVR800D2N5K2/4G).

I put these in slots 1 and 3 as the IP43 manual suggests for dual-channel.
However the system would neither POST nor even beep.
The CPU fan flicked for a fraction of a second and then stopped.

After many trials and much worrying I found that the system worked with
just one stick in slot 1 and it is now running stably with the sticks in
slots 1 and 2. However it has never worked in slots 1 and 3.

I note that the Kingston site lists the PC5300 version of this RAM as
compatible with the IP43 but not the PC6400.

Maybe the board or the chipset has a problem with PC6400 RAM in
dual-channel.

I have also had problems with the on-board Gigabit Ethernet of the IP43:

With Kubuntu 8.10 it comes up with an all zero MAC address.
I have to patch the MAC address dynamically in an init script for it to
work.

I cannot get it to work at all under Windows 7 beta.

Does anybody know where the MAC address is stored and how to set it
permanently?

Cheers,
Chris

Hi,

Replying to my own post:

Chris a écrit :
> I have also had problems with the on-board Gigabit Ethernet of the IP43:
>
> With Kubuntu 8.10 it comes up with an all zero MAC address.
> I have to patch the MAC address dynamically in an init script for it to
> work.
>
> I cannot get it to work at all under Windows 7 beta.

Under Windows 7 beta the MAC address also seems to come up as all zeros.

(Incidentally under Linux I have since seen it come up occasionally with
other silly but workable MAC addresses with 6 identical bytes e.g.
FC:FC:FC:FC:FC:FC.)

Even after forcing the MAC address, the initial Windows 7 beta driver
and the two updates I received (6.208.729.2008 and 6.210.1003.2008) all
give the error: "This device cannot start. (Code 10)".

In desperation I tried the 6.218.317.2009 Windows Vista driver from the
Realtek site:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/DOWNLOADS/...&GetDown=false
This driver works if the MAC address is forced in the device manager

Does anybody know whether the MAC address is stored in an NVRAM or an
EEPROM and how to set it permanently?

Cheers,
Chris