[clug] Why does my motherboard hate me?

[Francis James Whittle]

Urgh, self reply, sorry.

I've also noticed drastic changes in hardware behaviour between BIOS
revisions on the UD2H — for example, later firmwares seem to stall for a
long time on cold boot while "detecting" IDE drives, but earlier ones
only provide basic HID support intermittently (meaning that I can only
use my USB keyboard after the Linux USB stack is loaded on 4 out of 5
boots).  I don't know if this is true also for the US2H, but maybe you
could trying upgrading your BIOS if there's a more recent revision
available?

On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 13:09 +1000, Francis James Whittle wrote:
> Not saying I'll have anything intelligent to say (only times my UD2H has
> given me grief have likely been caused by operator error when trying to
> flash Coreboot to the BIOS - which I still never managed yet), but:
> 
> - Are you using integrated video?
> - Have you tried 2+2+2 and 2+2+1+1 configurations?
> 
> Initially, I'd suspect damage to and/or dust in one of the white memory
> slots....
> 
> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 12:11 +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I have a Gigabyte AM3 motherboard (specifically a GA-MA785GM-US2H) which 
> > takes DDR2 800Mhz memory. I have a dual core AM2 CPU in the machine if 
> > that matters.
> > 
> > The machine worked fine with 2 * 1GB DDR2 memory. I just tried to 
> > upgrade to 4 * 2GB DDR2 memory, which the motherboard manual says should 
> > be supported. However, in this configuration the machine doesn't boot. 
> > It doesn't even get to the BIOS, it just reads from the empty DVD drive 
> > over and over. The machine does boot with just 2 * 2GB though.
> > 
> > Any hints?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mikal
> 
>