AS Rock K7S8X

trackrat · June 13th, 2004

Is their anyone running a Linux distro who has an AS Rock K7S8X mobo with a SiS746 chipset because I have tried to install FC2 Mandy 10 & Debian and non will complete the install and after searching around I have found it is a problem with the chipset.
So has anyone managed to get a Linux distro to run on this mobo as I want to install Linux

**Geffy** · June 14th, 2004

eek, a friend of mine had serious problems with his AsRock board, it just wouldnt take his CPU or RAM, so I avoid them like the plague now, cant really help, maybe a BIOS update, turn off PNP-OS option in BIOS, turn off ACPI in the Fedora boot/installation

maybe try FreeBSD, it doesnt start as glossy as linux, but its much more stable and better imo

**Xie** · June 14th, 2004

Found this in a google search ...

It's an athlon mobo based on an SiS746FX ( apparently NOT the same as SiS746, AFAICT) - to get it to work with linux had to pass "noapic" in the kernel boot options.

trackrat · June 14th, 2004

Thanks for that Xie,Someone came back with a reply about noapic & nolapic and on following his instructions Mandrake 10 is now installed, I decided against FC2 as their are a lot of posts aboul dual booting problems with windows

Dublex · June 14th, 2004

Oh, it would probably install OK, you may just need to keep your holy water with you

blackflash · July 14th, 2004

I found the solution. initially update your bios with version 1.9 (i have not test the last version 2). your installation of linux mandrake should normally run (me, I have the #9.1), but that should go with the #10. At the end, in "summ up", "boot charger", check up "grub" (that must also go with "lilo").
then strip "acpi" and notch "force with apic". reboot. your starting normal begins. login as root. then goto "tool of configuration mandrake". if you haven't done set up "boot charger" as mentioned above. Then goto "configuration of material". locate the chart its in the list throw the tool of configuration of the module "sound". Select "i810", instead of "snd-i8x0", or something like.Then start again kde or reboot. Et voila!!

June 13th, 2004	Top \| #1
trackrat Birmingham UK Joined: January 2004 Posts: 154 Reputation: 60 Power: 100	AS Rock K7S8X Is their anyone running a Linux distro who has an AS Rock K7S8X mobo with a SiS746 chipset because I have tried to install FC2 Mandy 10 & Debian and non will complete the install and after searching around I have found it is a problem with the chipset. So has anyone managed to get a Linux distro to run on this mobo as I want to install Linux

June 14th, 2004	Top \| #2
Geffy OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: March 2002 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,805 Reputation: 1490 Power: 213	eek, a friend of mine had serious problems with his AsRock board, it just wouldnt take his CPU or RAM, so I avoid them like the plague now, cant really help, maybe a BIOS update, turn off PNP-OS option in BIOS, turn off ACPI in the Fedora boot/installation maybe try FreeBSD, it doesnt start as glossy as linux, but its much more stable and better imo  • blog • tumblog • lastfm • flickr • #rubyonrails • @twitter "I could be replaced with a very small shell script"

June 14th, 2004	Top \| #3
Xie - geek - Joined: September 2003 Location: NY, USA Posts: 5,216 Reputation: 1730 Power: 171	Found this in a google search ... It's an athlon mobo based on an SiS746FX ( apparently NOT the same as SiS746, AFAICT) - to get it to work with linux had to pass "noapic" in the kernel boot options. tehgeek \| tehgeek \| geeking out to tech \| IRC \| Parted Magic \| A+ Certified Professional

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trackrat Birmingham UK Joined: January 2004 Posts: 154 Reputation: 60 Power: 100	Thanks for that Xie,Someone came back with a reply about noapic & nolapic and on following his instructions Mandrake 10 is now installed, I decided against FC2 as their are a lot of posts aboul dual booting problems with windows

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Dublex Quazatron R6 droid Joined: January 2002 Location: Hertfordshire, UK Posts: 624 Reputation: 180 Power: 130	Oh, it would probably install OK, you may just need to keep your holy water with you

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blackflash OSNN One Post Wonder Joined: July 2004 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Power: 0	I found the solution. initially update your bios with version 1.9 (i have not test the last version 2). your installation of linux mandrake should normally run (me, I have the #9.1), but that should go with the #10. At the end, in "summ up", "boot charger", check up "grub" (that must also go with "lilo"). then strip "acpi" and notch "force with apic". reboot. your starting normal begins. login as root. then goto "tool of configuration mandrake". if you haven't done set up "boot charger" as mentioned above. Then goto "configuration of material". locate the chart its in the list throw the tool of configuration of the module "sound". Select "i810", instead of "snd-i8x0", or something like.Then start again kde or reboot. Et voila!!