On Thursday 16 March 2006 06.01, Richard Fish wrote: > On 3/14/06, Jimmy Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, this is an NVidia GeForce 6600 PCI-X card on an Intel > > SE7525RP2 > > Have you tried updating the motherboard BIOS? > > According to the thread here: > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46824 > > "We had feedback from Intel and it's common PCI problem with > SE7525GP2" "Hopefully Intel fixes (their) firmware so I can use the > two SE7525GP2s now sitting in the cabinet." > > This was over a year ago, and it looks like intel has done a couple > of BIOS updates since then. > > http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results. >aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2095&OSFullName=SuSE*+Linux+Enterprise+S >erver+9.0&lang=eng&strOSs=127&submit=Go%21 > > Of particular interest in the release notes: > > - SP/GP Tracker 20204 : [X] nVidia graphics cards do not work on > GP2. > > Ok, so everything references a GP2, and you have an RP2, but maybe > they have the same problem/fix? > > -Richard
Thanks a bunch guys. Really helpful. Saved the day you did. Now I'm really happy, because I can finally bring my personal workstation home to my apartment, instead of keeping it in the lab to be able to do any real work. I finally got the approval from the sysadmins to flash the bios with the xxx04xxx18xxx update, and ... it worked like a charm. The problem is gone and all is well, so far at least. If anyone is considering this kind of setup based on the Intel SE7525GP2 or SE7525RP2, I would recommend going with a cheaper dual core athlon or opteron setup instead. This thing is way overpriced and doesn't give enough bang for the bucks. Harebrafolk Jimmy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
