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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