Hardware :: New Motherboard & CPU - No Ethernet Or Video
Jan 17, 2011
My old motherboard (biostar tp35d2-a7) died. I got a new intel h67 motherboard and installed an i5-2400 in it, and tried to boot off of the debian testing install that is on the hard drive, and which worked with the old hardware. (Old system had nvidia graphics.) It doesn't entirely work with the new hardware, however. I don't have ethernet and something is wrong with video, so X doesn't start.
To check hardware function and linux compatibility I booted Knoppix, and both networking and graphics are working properly. How should I go about fixing the installed OS to work with the new hardware? Do I just need to totally reinstall? Or is there some way to add drivers or reconfigure so that the existing OS will work properly?
I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 uname -r 2.6.28-11-generic
Checked cable/network with 386Box running Ubuntu 8.04 all OK. Could not get Realtek 8168 on mother board to work on Gigabyte H55M-S2H motherboard. I tried to install r8168 driver but no luck ... so I bought another Linux compatible card which turned out to be a RTL8139c (eth1) and the driver I am using on this is card is 8139too.
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My preference would be to get the motherboard ethernet working but perhaps the card may be easier to get working. Anyway after searching the net for ideas and trying different things I've just about given up. I have reinstalled Ubuntu today so eth0 is back to using the r8169 driver. I'm no expert so my attempts at following other recipies have so far failed. From what I have read the 8139too driver should have worked with the RTL8139C chip so I have run out of ideas. I must be doing something wrong.
My computer boots up, grub loads up, but I enter tty1 instead of the desktop environment.
I am using Debain GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy).
My mother board is an ASUS M4A88T-M.
Former graphics card was a Radeon, bought within the past couple years, pretty high specs. (I am having trouble determining what the card is right now, I'll update my post when I figure it out).
I remember having to mess around with some config files to get it to work at first, but right now how to 'unfix' it now.
Much to my consternation, my video card blew a few capacitors. A local computer shop said that they tried a working PCI Express card, and the video was still not working, so they concluded the PCI Express slot was damaged as well. However, they also tried an older model video card that uses the PCI slots, and everything worked. So I ordered a new video PCI video card. It's on its way (Amazon). However, in the meantime I had a 1997-vintage video card sitting around, so when I got the computer back, I tried it. No signal to the monitor, not even motherboard booting beeps. Nothing. I called the shop back. He said even though my old card fit the PCI slot, new changes might have made it incompatible (16 vs. 32 bit, etc.). Anyway, even when I take the card out and boot, no beeps. That makes me wonder whether the old card did something, and now the motherboard is damaged beyond use. The man at the shop said the possible incompatibility of the old card should not have damaged the motherboard. Instead, he suggested that once a part of the motherboard is damaged (and we know the PCI Express slot is damaged), the motherboard as a whole can start acting erratically. However, it was beeping at the shop; now it is not.
I'm hoping those on this forum more knowledgeable about hardware than I am can give me some advice on the following questions.
(1) Does everything the shop did and said sound reasonable and likely?
(2) When my new PCI video card arrives from Amazon, if the computer still will not boot or even beep, does this prove I need a new motherboard?
(3) Is there any chance the motherboard could damage the new video card?
(4) Biggest issue: If I need a new motherboard, should I try to find one that accepts the same CPU and memory sticks? So far, I haven't been able to find one online. Or should I bite the bullet and get a new CPU and memory to match the new motherboard?
(5) If I get a new motherboard, new CPU, and new memory, can you suggest some possibilities of what I should look for? I don't want low-end, but for the work I do, I don't need really high-end, state-of-the-art either. I don't play computer games.
I recently installed ubuntu 9.10 dual boot. All went well until I upgraded the video drivers for the nvidia chipset on my motherboard. If I leave Gnome to start with the single user i created i get a black screen and 'mode not supported ' message on the monitor. BUT if i drop to root and 'startx' all is well and i can adjust the various screen resolutions and they all work well.
At this point i created another user name to check, and that works fine also, but if i drop back to the original user i get no screen unless i select 800x600, although all the other resolutions work fine with root and the other user name. Im stumped as I presume there's only one xorg.conf file for all users.
i just instaled bt4 on my hdd and i have a problem with instaling drivers... i cant find and install driver for my video card nvidia 8200 integrated on motherboard. exacly i got the problem with changeing video resolution... i have only 640x480 and 800x600, and here is the problem, i cant put it in 1024x768..
I am basically wanting to use my Ubuntu 10.10 computer as a router. Note: Before you say just get a router please note that I am poor/cheap. I have two ethernet connections and one wireless connection on my netbook. I want to share the internet connection that is going into one of the ethernet cards through the other ethernet card and the wireless card.
DSL-->1sr Eth --> 2nd Eth (currently works) DSL-->1sr Eth --> Wireless Card (Adhoc) <--(connects with limited connectivity AKA no internet)
The 2nd Ethernet card already has working internet, but when I connect to the Wireless card (through an Adhoc network), it cannot get an IP (I believe).
My laptop was working fine on wireless till the userinterface changed and it defaulted to ethernet and now it won't let me go back on wireless How do i disable ethernet?
I am currently running Fedora 14 on a 32-bit AMD XP motherboard. My plan is to replace the motherboard w/an AMD 64-bit (multicore, prob'ly) version (most likely w/a different h/w architecture) and I'd like to make sure my current applications and configuration (if that makes any sense) are moved en masse to the 64-bit version.
Is there an easy way to do this? What are my "gotchas"?
I used my old RAM in my new PC. The RAM was rated for 533mhz but the motherboard could not run it below 667mhz. Today I was using tdfsb (3D file system browser) in my music folder (which has a lot of files/folders) the PC froze. After 20min I pulled the plug and it started back up properly. After some updates later that day, I tried to reboot. All it did was shut down and light up the fanlights instead of restarting. I tried resetting the battery. With the old motherboard, bad RAM would cause beeps and I hear no beeps. The board is a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H. The CPU an Athlon II x2 255. RAM failure would cause beeps or not.
I'm making a simple file server for a small business, running OpenSUSE with raid 1 HDD. Can anyone suggest a good motherboard? I don't really care if it has the raid controllers on it, but if not, a good raid controller?
I recently purchased a motherboard but overlooked that there are no ide or fd plugs on it. What I am wondering is, since the solder points are on the motherboard, can I solder some plugs on or is the controller disabled/non existent?
I have a home server running Ubuntu 10.04. I want to replace the motherboard and CPU without reinstalling the OS. I read a long time ago that this would sort of work on Windows XP, but with stability issues. However, I have a hunch that on a modern Linux there shouldn't be any problems.
Recently my motherboard has been dying and the warentee is gone so I decieded it was upgrade time. I need to know if there is anything special I need to do for Ubuntu to work on my computer after the new hardware is installed. I currently have a 32 bit motherboard and processor and am switching over soon. GRUB 2 handles my boot and I know I have some extra stuff to do on windows 7 but I was wondering what I needed to do to get my computer to boot up after the upgrade.
I just upgraded to an ASUS P8P67 Pro (Sandy Bridge) motherboard and moved my old hard drive to the new case. Windows 7 and XP are running smoothly. Ubuntu, however, doesn't detect the Ethernet adapter or doesn't have a suitable driver. ASUS doesn't offer Linux drivers for this motherboard. Is there a way to make Ubuntu revert to a default, working driver?
I have tried installing both 10.10 and 11.04 on a older motherboard . The install seems to go smooth till it gets to the "who are you" screen and then there is no forward button lite up.
I bought a new motherboard and put this hard drive and 2 others on it. This hard drive has Kubuntu 8.04, one other has windows 7, and the 3rd one has Mandriva 2010. I re installed Mandriva 2010 so it would recognize the other 2 hard drives (10 hours later). And even though GRUB sees all 3 hard drive I cannot boot to Kubuntu 8.04. I had to put Mandriva on the one because it has a complete GRUB bootloader whereas Kubuntu does Not So is there a way to get this hard drive to work on my new motherboard?
I had to put together another tower with the old mobo to get to where I am now.
If a mechanism is controlling fan speed dynamically there must be a processor involved especially if it is PWM. Is BIOS the code regulating this and does a temp sensor interrupt the CPU to run the code? Is there a Micro controller on the board so the CPU is not involved?
I got my purple fans today and realized that there was spots on the motherboard that looked like the smaller plugs on the fans. (Yes I'm still a n00b). Google led me to a page that told me about my motherboard. I found out that my motherboard only takes DDR2 ram. And I have DDR3 in there right now. I think this solves my issue as to why my computer crashes when I try to put 8GB of ram in it.... So do I upgrade the motherboard or downgrade the ram? (It doesn't want to let me post this URL to the motherboard specs) Asus P5BV-C
I've recently changed the motherboard of a redhat server that's been running fine otherwise. The new motherboard is different to the old one. I can't boot in now; getting "Kernal panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 00:00" messages. I've run mkinitrd to rebuild the image file and have changed the grub.conf line to point to the new image file but it still occurs.
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.25) root (hd0,0) kernal /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd.img.2.4.18-14
However; during the bootup I spy some "unknown IDE device" errors along with some "IRQ resource cannot be reserved" and/or "Could not enable IDE device" or similar messages. As per attached image.
I can detect the harddisk when I bootup using rescuecd and that's how i rebuilt the image file. I have tried changing the "ro root=" to "ro root=/dev/hda3" or other hdax figures; but still the same.
I am just getting into the Raid world with my home server. what i have:
Asus M3A78-CM (may be wrong, cant remember for sure) Motherboard with 6 Sata2 Connectors 3 2TB Sata2 Drives 2GB of DDR2 Ram set in bank A AMD Dual Core (i'll know what it is when i get the system booted)
What i am trying to figure out is when i build this system, I will put in the HDD's into Sata Ports 1-3 and in the BIOS i will setup a RAID 5 Array. Now, do i just format and partition like normal? Would it be better to have a smaller, and better performing Sata2 for the system so i can have the raid be only for file storage?
In what i have read about this, i need to format each drive into two partitions at least but i do not know what needs to be done, The guides just vaguely say something about two partitions and then move on (trick of the trade? keep all of us in the dark? LOL) I would like to have a raid for my storage and a faster disk for the OS and home directories. But if it cannot be done then thats how it is. So do i put the TB drives in Sata Ports 4-6 and my other drive in Sata Port 1?
I'm not a linux noob. Slackware Linux has been my primary OS since the late 1990's. This GA-965P DS3 has been my main system for several years now, and other than a few kernels that had problems with the sky2 ethernet modules, it has been running well with Slackware 11 through 12.1. Core 2 Duo E6600, 6GB RAM, SATA drives in software RAID1, PATA DVD-RW drive, ICH8 Southbridge, JMicron JMB363 RAID/PATA controller. Latest BIOS flashed this morning.
Currently I'm stuck at kernel 2.6.31.13 as any kernel from 2.6.32-2.6.34 locks solid after SATA/IDE device capabilities detection. I can boot from a Slackware 13.0 CD (2.6.29.6 I think) with no problems but not from a Slackware 13.1 CD (2.6.33.4). It locks hard after scanning the first SATA or IDE port that has a device attached. It reads the device serial number and capabilities before locking. I can keep unplugging drives and it moves to the next drive and hard locks. If all the SATA devices are unplugged, after scanning the SATA bus it locks after querying the DVD on the PATA bus. Behavior is the same with custom compiled kernels 2.6.32rc1 through 2.6.34. I'm sure this means it is related to the libata changes in 2.6.32, but no BIOS setting of IDE/AHCI/RAID makes any difference.
Plugged in, the PSU will not show any power, unconnected to the board, the led flashes. How do I test to see if the PSU is fried or if it is the motherboard?
I had installed Ubuntu 9.10 edition many times but I was unable to play audio/video,access to internet etc. where will I get the motherboard drivers for Ubuntu.
Using the onboard gigabit ethernet interface on an Asus M2N-CM DVI motherboard (nVidia chipset) with CentOS 5.2 the ethtool utility recognises that the NIC is capable of gigabit:
# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
System: OpenSuSE 11.0Mouse: Microsoft Intellipoint OpticalI'm having some troubles and am in need of any assistance you can spare. I've recently upgraded to an ASUS A8N-SLI, SuSE transitioned over smoothly as I set the system to mount via volume/disk labels; it booted up perfectly although, naturally, I needed to run SaX2 to reconfigure the X server. After I did this, I logged into my desktop and after about a minute the mousetopped responding. The lights would still light up upon movement however the cursor would not move unplugged and reinserted the device however it would not light up.
I have tried the mouse on my Windows disk and my other Windows computer and it works fine. I have already tried reconfiguring SaX2 andremoving the mouse0 file from /dev/input yet the problem still persists. In fact, I'm navigating the forums with a keyboard. After the mouse fails, if I try testing a new SaX2 configuration, switching virtual consoles or doing anything which would switch resolution the computer locksp and displays s screenful of coloured, fuzzy lines. I imagine this has something to do with an X configuration somewhere, I'll post my X configs here.
i have a OpenSUSE 11.3 with Gnome desktop ( core i5 processor, 2 GB DDR3 RAM ) want to run memtest, plz advice me which prog is best for it and where to find documentation or videos.Moreover is there any tests for motherboard / processor
