AMD Phenom X4 9550 + SCSI

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From: Thorolf

I already tried it with RC4 and no success, next try with RC5:

The system:

• Gigabyte MA790X-DS4

• AMD Phenom X4 9550

• 2x 1GB DDR2 1066

• Sapphire HD3450 512MB

• SATA HDD and SATA DVD-RW/RAM/...

I also added my SCSI-Adapter (PCI Dawicontrol DC-2980 U2W) and Soundcard (PCI SB Live 1024) an the old PATA DVD-RW/RAM/...

First try:

• put eCS 2.0 RC5 into DVD-drive

• boot with default values

• unpacking diskettes

• kernel message in the corner

• very short eCS-Logo

• trap 0008

Second try:

• put eCS 2.0 RC5 into DVD-drive

• boot with own values

• disable ACPI

• continue booting with Alt+F2

• system boots, installation went through and some time later it comes up with final installation tasks.

• Panorama (ATI HD3450) and GenMAC (RTL8168) are working, USB too, SB Live 1024 PCI not yet (probably I selected the wrong driver).

Then I tried to install ACPI 3.10 and on the next reboot the system does not come up anymore ...

e-co:

SCSI => ​http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=acpi-scsi

Thorolf:

no, that does not help.

With PSD=ACPI.PSD /SMP /PIC it hangs at RESSOURCE.SYS, with PSD=ACPI.PSD /UNI /PIC at KBDBASE.SYS, in both cases I removed the BASEDEV=SYSM8XX.ADD from my CONFIG.SYS!

My BIOS tells me that the ACPI-controller is at IRQ 9, while the SCSI-adapter is at IRQ 11. If I find some time I can try to remove the SCSI-adapter but on the other hand it works with APM!

How can I enable SMP without ACPI?

The SMP-kernel is installed, but I need a PSD and other stuff for enabeling SMP - I have running it on my old ACP2r-server but I don't want to begin playing around to get it working!

[eco]

e-co:

Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 -- AMD-chipset -- ​http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2695

ACPI is ready to support this motherboard, if you enable ACPI then the PC behaviour changes and eComStation can't boot on such motherboard.