What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Mischa

The LS21 blades in our IBM eServer Bladecenters are based around the Broadcom/Serverworks HT2000 chipset and, save for an annoying IBM firmware bug which means that enabling HPETs prevents Linux from booting, their Linux performance and compatibility has been, as you’d hope, excellent.

And, if you look, the most recent update for the A79A-S was on the 17th March – well before the 14th August when this summary post was written, so all of these comments apply to the latest (and almost certainly final) BIOS.

Yes, firmware updates eventually improved the A79A-S beyond its shockingly bad initial state – but even with these, the board simply doesn’t work properly.

Using -v I can see Darwin loading HFS+ files etc but it was going too fast to read what was being done just before the screen went blank and the system rebooted. By the way the ? switch was not recognized.

I think you’re right. They didn’t get it through a keylogger or phishing scam. My password is not dictionary-based and I used numbers and mixed case. That tells me they have a rather sneaky method, whatever it is. I’m inclined to think it’s within Windows Live.

That it’s still occurring tells me just how much Microsoft cares about it.

If this doesn’t help then you could try booting by typing ‘-v‘, which should produce verbose output. You’ll have to be quick, but the final output before the system reboots might be significant…

Any ideas what could be causing the sudden reboot?

Any help would be ace.

Any Ideas?
Ian

Any help you could provide would be much appreciated.

thanks.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that you’re going to have any luck with the projector – I’ve not come across any GMA950 driver which works in Mirror-mode. You can have your projector running as a separate display alongside the built-in panel, but as soon as you switch to Mirrored mode (which is what you want) the output will corrupt on both displays. The problem then is that you can’t see anything with the external display connected, yet the option disappears when the display is disconnected (but at least you can see again).

When testing, I removed Mirrored mode by disconnecting the display and turning on keyboard-navigation and Voice Over, and then tabbing around the Displays Preferences pane to see what it sounded like, then plugging in the external monitor (corrupting the display) and navigating by ear(!) until I found the Mirror check-box and disabling it.

I think that the best you’ll be able to do without Apple hardware is to run with two separate displays, and then drag the windows of interest from the internal panel to the projector display.

Larry

I use VMWare with Ubuntu to create my USB boot sticks.

Jumping through hoops, yes, but still doable.

• If MCE-on-ECC-errors is enabled, then Windows 7 will fail to resume from hibernation;
• Holding down a key (such as F12 to go to the boot-menu) during POST will result in the BIOS freezing and a hard-reset being needed to continue;
• Sometimes, when shutting down or restarting from Windows 7 or from Linux, the machine will power-off and not power back on again until power is physically removed for at least 30 seconds.

Two different processor/motherboard combinations (I had both of the initial items replaced at the same time due to my assumption that the power-off problem was a hardware fault) and three different BIOS versions have shared these problems.

I’d suggest that manufacturers just aren’t paying enough attention to non-Intel boards these days, but then we hear that the “Intel P55 Express Chipset” Core i5/i7 chipset also has it’s own troubles… so perhaps non-OEM motherboards, lacking a big company behind them to insist on quality control and correct operation, are suffering at a time when all are trying to reign-in costs. Perhaps the burden of having to remain compatible with the vast amount of PC-compatible hardware that has appeared over the years is now too great. In any case, quality is definitely suffering and these expensive items simply don’t work reliably 100% of the time. I still have some old mainboards at home from computers which are now laughably old and slow (a 350MHz K6-3 and a 1.5GHz Athlon, IIRC)… but the one thing that they share in common is that they worked perfectly first-time and were absolutely stable and reliable. It is worth noting that it is in the intervening years between these products being new and now that there has been a massive consolidation in the PC motherboard market, with most companies going out of business or being bought up – so that now there are only a small handful of different manufacturers, releasing hardware under several more different brands. The drop in quality does seem to have accompanied the drop in competition.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…

http://osxdaily.com/2009/10/31/hackintosh-netbook-users-take-note-snow-leopard-10-6-2-update-kills-support-for-atom-processor/

So we are talking a pre-release beta build here – but then, I’m surprised that Apple hasn’t moved against the hackintosh community before now.

It won’t lose GMA950 support, though – there are still shed-loads of (original) MacBook Air and pre-nVidia Mac Mini owners out there.

I’m sure there will always be fixes (10.6.x userspace on 10.6.1 kernel, custom kernel modifications, etc.) so the game’s not up… but the barrier to entry just got that much higher.

There’s always Ubuntu

I have been reading that the new 10.6.2 update with removing support for Atom CPUs and Intel 950 GMA support.

Do you know if the new system update has affected your system if you are on SL or anybody elses system that has SL and on NC10 or MSIWind?

I hope to hear from you soon.

All the best

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