FC3 won't boot on Gigabyte K8NS-Ultra-939

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Sat Jan 15 00:04:22 UTC 2005


Xconnect flunked the Maximum PC review. They did not reccomend it, 
citing stability problems and voltage levels on the 12v rail. I don't 
reccomend it either. You are better off with the Antec or PC Power & 
Cooling unit. I'll try to find the magazine issue to see if they rated 
the Uneeq.

Bob


Doug Stewart wrote:

> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
>> You won't be able to use a cheap power supply with a 6800 card. And 
>> if the supply is really bad, it can damage your system components. 
>> You need at least a 430 watt power supply for that video card. 
>> Antec's top of the line supply recently got the best rating from 
>> Maximum PC magazine, which rated 7 different power supplies. You 
>> might want to read that. PC Power & Cooling's TurboCool came in second.
>>
>> Bob Cochran
>>
>> Doug Stewart wrote:
>>
>>> Doug Stewart wrote:
>>>
>>>> Howdy all,
>>>> I'm hoping you could point me in the right direction on this one.
>>>>
>>>> I've recently acquired a spankin' new machine based on the 
>>>> K8NS-Ultra. I've got a single SATA drive attached to the Sil 
>>>> controller (I know, I know, the nForce SATA controller supposedly 
>>>> IS a Sil one; I'm talking about the separate one).
>>>>
>>>> 've installed FC3 (x86-64 edition) twice on it. The install goes 
>>>> flawlessly, but when I reboot, I never even get to the grub screen 
>>>> - the bios just complains "No operating systems found". FC seems to 
>>>> think I'm installing on /dev/sda, so on a hunch, I tried booting 
>>>> off a rescue disk and running `grub-install /dev/sda`. This took 
>>>> far longer than I have ever encountered on a non-AMD64 system, but 
>>>> eventually came back and reported no errors.
>>>>
>>>> Upon reboot, I still received "No operating systems found". Help!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks to all who have replied to me off-list. I'm thinking that, 
>>> based upon some additional Google researching (and the fact that the 
>>> power supply fan alarm is going off and issues I've had with a 
>>> GeForce 6800 in the machine) that it may, in fact, be a power supply 
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> I'll check back in once I know more.
>>>
>>>
>
> I was using an Xconnect, which was supposed to be pretty good. A new 
> one is about to be RMA'd from my supplier.
>
> In the meantime, I got a Uneeq 500W supply, reran rescue mode and 
> manually wrote the partition table to the MBR with fdisk. Everything 
> booted A-OK, so I guess I'll subsist on a substandard PS until the 
> Xconnect comes in.
>
> Thanks everyone for your help.
>




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