Re: New HW troubles

Steve Browne wrote:
> Aaron Birenboim wrote:
>> I have some very new hardware.
>> intel 82575EB NIC,
>> GeForce 8800 video on PCIe 2.0 x16 bus.
>>
>> The usual Ubuntu 7.10 installs died.  They could not figure out the 
>> display.  Is there a way to do a text-based install?
>>
>> Debian did not recognize the NIC chips.
..
>>
>> +++  One more gotcha for folks on the bleeding edge:
>>
>> This is a dual LGA 771 motherboard.
>> I bought a chassis which was "dual xeon ready".
>> It had holes tapped out for the LGA 771 heatsinks, BUT NO STANDOFFS!
...

> You are talking about separate NIC and GPU cards, or a Supermicro 
> motherboard with onboard NIC and graphics? You don't give the Supermicro 
> model #.

NIC chips.  Seperate GPU card.  (Nobody puts 8800's on mBoard ... yet)

> I bought a second Asus M2V (AM2) motherboard open-box for half-price 
> from Newegg and it works fine.

Yea... but some of the missing parts for this one were unique and critical.
Namely the I/O plate and driver disk.
Windows won't run without some of those drivers.  The drivers are NOT
provided to the public on the SuperMicro www site.

> CPU standoffs/mounts are usually on the motherboard itself; how does the 
> chassis come into this? Plastic standoffs are better because they can't 
> short out.

LGA771 standoffs are on the Chassis, not the mobo.
there are holes in the LGA 771 template to allow the heatsink
bolts through to the standoffs, which are both electrically
and heat conductive on purpose, I'm sure.

Intel site clearly states that although they sell heatsinks in
their retail packages, they expect chassis providers to include
mounts/standoffs for their bolt pattern.


               aaron
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