From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 11:10:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2544A16A400 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:10:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@uni-mainz.de) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.178.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 482D243D48 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:10:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohartman@uni-mainz.de) Received: from [134.93.180.123] (ipamzra.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B29430014AD for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:10:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4417F60A.5020604@uni-mainz.de> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:10:02 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-mainz.de Subject: OT: Help on hardware failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:10:06 -0000 Hello. Sorry posting this here, but I hope somebody is capable of helping in this situation. Yesterday I tried to insert a Creative Soundblasetr live! (CT4380) audioboard into a ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe running FreeBSD 6.1-PRE. After starting the box, everything seems to be ok. I kldloaded snd_emu10k1 and a sneak view into the dmesg-output shows up the audio boards has been recognized. I have to mention I disabled the built-in audio codec of the mainboard. After starting XINE a recognized the system froze immediately. After pushing the reset button The only thing I saw was the BIOS message reporting a count of 2GB memory and the type of CPU (AMD64 3500+). Then nothing happened anymore. Immediately after a new reset I pushed the DEL key to enter BIOS setup, I saw the appropriate message at the bottom of the screen, that BIOS would be entered, then I recognized the screen of the nVidia RAID, saying RAID is good (I have two 200GB harddrives as striped RAID 0 configured). Then nothing happened. After the extraction of the Creative audio board I did a CLEAR CMOS. And after that, nothing happened anymore, nothing visible on my Flat Panel, no beep, nothing. i can switch on and off the box by pressing the power button, and the box gets off power by pressing the power button 4 secs. The green ATX-power LED indicating power to the board is lighting. Pulling out one of two 1GB ECC DIMMs forces the board to beep, pulling out both DIMMs triggers the the same reaction. The big question is: is the mainboard gone to hell or the CPU? I do not have any exchange CPU or MoBo to test, so I need to track down the problem otherwise. Is this possible without additional technical equipment? The other question is: what happend to the A8N-SLI Deluxe mainboard? The appropriate audio card works fine in any older system I tested it on. It is very curious the system dies when activating the sound ports on this audio board as it happened to me. As I read in some newsgroups about nForce4 killing sattelite receiver cards by overdriving the voltage regulators leads me into suspecting the mobo being dead. Well, any help is appreciated. Thanks a lot, Oliver