Hdwe UEFI upgrade report...some ??? to maybe ignore
Jeffrey Bouquet
jbtakk at iherebuywisely.com
Sat Jul 23 12:56:53 UTC 2016
I had the main desktop DDR2 mysteriously lose video ( still don't know if it is just needing reseating
memory or if the onboard video no longer works or if one of the four bad capacitors went too var
awry to still work... lack of time to test..)
Sorry for the formatting
new ddr3 msi board FX-8320E .......... old ddr2 gigabyte ????? amd
new usb mouse, had to use usm0 .............old usb mouse > legacy mouse adaptor, used psm0
new vt so can exit X (not tested yet) ............ old sc
new vidcontrol to set resolution NOT ............. old vidcontrol MODE_276 brown black
new onboard EUFI/LEGACY mode disabled sound ........... old game theatre sound card again working
new no parallel port, card on order, ALL SLOTS FULL probably ............. old parallel port onboard
new two pcie so Areca and Video card work .......... old Areca, OR video, used the former
new cost $99 motherboard ......... old second hand board, probably more than $99
new nfe0 not working, none is WINDOWS strange "gaming" ... old nfe0
E2205 .... fixed with a axe/ue0 usb to ethernet box which I had
sometimes problems with as to the novice one would try axe0 in wpa_ etc
ignoring the instead ue0...
new msi nvidia 750ti 2gb no PCIE adaptor necc .... old onboard video
new nvidia-driver, had to build from ports ..... old nvidia-driver-304
new 8g ..... old 2g ddr2
If one prefers DDR2 for a two-cpu-on-lan setup, anyone knows of a very reliable source for a pair of mobo/CPU ?
Not important that anyone answers
Might-be-working-if-reassembled-enough-times-with-legacy-parts pentium 4 and DDR2 ( gigabyte amd) motherboards,
... e-waste or send to a FreeBSD developer for test and reuse somewhere? (each run but no video though, amd board
is disassembled... )
The only question here I feel the need to address sooner not later is whether to duplicate the DDR3 amd system for
in-case-Xorg-crashes-at-dawn backup, or discard the DDR2 board and build/buy two DDR2 systems to recreate what
was working about twenty days ago flawlessly... bad capacitors on the motherboard notwithstanding. ( DDR2 amd,
main was gigabyte, backup was msi... although each without a full range of slots vs ATX full size and costlier)
At any rate is is cathartic to have a fully working v11 vt desktop with sound that I had no clue if would work without
RMA, assistance, ...
One or two items may be omitted from the list above... a 3x5 card has gone missing here since yesterday... too much
paperwork in progress.
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