Mboard + CPU Upgrade

[Joseph Maxwell]

Thanks Derrick, your suggestion worked for initial probe, now UNEXPECTED
INCONSISTENCY & fsck problems

Derrick Ryalls wrote:

> >
> > Differences -
> >
> >  Old Architecture:
> >
> >       Shuttle AI61 motherboard
> >       AMD K7 CPU Processor 900 Mhz
> >       AMD751 Chipset
> >       3 DIMM Sockets
> >
> >  New Architecture:
> >
> >       Shuttle AK32A motherboard
> >       AMD Athlon CPU 1.5 GHz
> >       Chipset(s) - 2:     VIA VT8366A & VIA VT8233
> >       2 DIMM Sockets each, DDR/SDR
> >
> > Similarities:
> >
> >      Same Hard drives (2 - Boot & data)
> >      Memory sticks
> >      5 PCI & 1 AGP slots
> >      3 PC Cards
> >           A Diamond Stealth Video Card
> >           A line modem card
> >           A SMC NIC
> >
> > I transferred all the cards including the NIC to ensure
> > similarity of Hardware Profile. Machine boots partially,
> > probing devices, listing to stdout. Readout aborts
> > consistently at a line which is difficult to read on the fly,
> > but the last few lines have been extracted, which from by
> > naive point of view seems to indicate a USB problem. I've
> > done a reconfig of kernel, no significant difference or
> > conflicts were found. I've double check the BIOS to make sure
> > all relevant USB / PCI options are enabled ( at least so I
> > think ). The messages from the last few lines of the probe
> > are as follows:
> >
> > ahci0:  <VIA 83C572 USB Controller> port 0xd400-0xd41f irq11
> > at dcsi....
> >
> > cio
> > <VIA 83C572 USB Controller>> on ubc 10
> > usb0: USB revision 1.0
> > uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> >
> > At this point, last line above, the screen blanks out,
> > process exits presumably. Any suggestions or help would be
> > greatly appreciated.
>
> Shot in the dark here, but perhaps it is a difference in the USB
> version.  Maybe old one had USB 1 and new one supports USB 2.  If you
> have no USB devices (or want to see anyway), try going into BIOS and
> disabling or clocking down the USB ports.
>
> Good luck.