POST hangs at "PCI Auto Config" on PL3000 (PII) using ATI Rage Pro 128, etc

Greetings:

I have a problem which is evidently known but unresolved
and not well publicized: ATI Rage Pro 128 products hang
POST at "PCI Auto Config" on the PL 3000 (PII version).
I also found that my LP 3000 fibre channel HBA will
occasionally do the same.

BIOS version is latest of course and evidently there
was a fix for Presarios with the same problem but of
course there wasn't for the PL 3000.

I _NEED_ ATI graphics for the video applications we
need to run on this box. Does anyone have experience
as to what high-end ATI boards will work here?

Regards,

Michael

P.S. Jeffrey Alsip -- please try again to email me at
msg (at) waste (dot) org; I've sent several emails to you
at jeffreyalsip (at) qmail (dot) com and they haven't bounced but
you must not have received them.

P.S. Jeffrey Alsip -- please try again to email me at
msg (at) waste (dot) org; I've sent several emails to you
at jeffreyalsip (at) qmail (dot) com and they haven't bounced but
you must not have received them.


GMAIL ... not QMAIL

Use a RILOE ( or RILOE II ) Board ... it has the same ATI video chip and
much higher graphics performance than the onboard provision. You get
graphics, and a true remote console too.

- LC

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Greetings:

I have a problem which is evidently known but unresolved
and not well publicized: ATI Rage Pro 128 products hang
POST at "PCI Auto Config" on the PL 3000 (PII version).
I also found that my LP 3000 fibre channel HBA will
occasionally do the same.

BIOS version is latest of course and evidently there
was a fix for Presarios with the same problem but of
course there wasn't for the PL 3000.

I _NEED_ ATI graphics for the video applications we
need to run on this box. Does anyone have experience
as to what high-end ATI boards will work here?

Regards,

Michael

P.S. Jeffrey Alsip -- please try again to email me at
msg (at) waste (dot) org; I've sent several emails to you
at jeffreyalsip (at) qmail (dot) com and they haven't bounced but
you must not have received them.

NuTCrAcKeR wrote:

Use a RILOE ( or RILOE II ) Board ... it has the same ATI video chip and
much higher graphics performance than the onboard provision. You get
graphics, and a true remote console too.

That sounds like a solution; I didn't know what GPU was on that board.
I studied the pdf manual for the board hoping to learn the hardware
specs for the VGA side but they aren't published; do you have one
installed on an NT/2K box? Could you let me know how much VRAM
and what the DAC speed shows in Device Manager? I will need at
least 8MB of VRAM and 300MHz DAC (specs for the ATI AIW Rage 128 Pro
are 16MB and 350MHz).

One last 'minor detail': I will be using the ATI MultiMedia Center
utilities -- they are very picky about 'supported ATI hardware'
when starting. A very useful experiment would be to install version
7.1 MMC from the ATI site (and the 'rage_fury_pro' drivers for Win2k)
and see if they will accept the RILOE. If you have the opportunity
to test this, please let us know.

Regards,

Michael

give up now ...

Im not sure about the DAC on the controller. Its a server, so its not
supposed to do workstation quality graphics. The chip is the 3D RAGE IIC
PCI, but I cant get any info off the DAC. Its not beefy ... maybe 4MB of
VRAM. The multimedia tools probably wont work with it.

- LC


"msg" wrote in message
...
NuTCrAcKeR wrote:

Use a RILOE ( or RILOE II ) Board ... it has the same ATI video chip and
much higher graphics performance than the onboard provision. You get
graphics, and a true remote console too.

That sounds like a solution; I didn't know what GPU was on that board.
I studied the pdf manual for the board hoping to learn the hardware
specs for the VGA side but they aren't published; do you have one
installed on an NT/2K box? Could you let me know how much VRAM
and what the DAC speed shows in Device Manager? I will need at
least 8MB of VRAM and 300MHz DAC (specs for the ATI AIW Rage 128 Pro
are 16MB and 350MHz).

One last 'minor detail': I will be using the ATI MultiMedia Center
utilities -- they are very picky about 'supported ATI hardware'
when starting. A very useful experiment would be to install version
7.1 MMC from the ATI site (and the 'rage_fury_pro' drivers for Win2k)
and see if they will accept the RILOE. If you have the opportunity
to test this, please let us know.

Regards,

Michael

One additional question...

The manual describes the 'in-band management' capabilities
over the Ethernet I/F; this implies that the NIC can be
used by the host O/S. Can you confirm this (does the NIC
appear as a device usable for a 'local area connection' in
Win2k/NT)?

Regards,

Michael

"msg" wrote in message
...
One additional question...

The manual describes the 'in-band management' capabilities
over the Ethernet I/F; this implies that the NIC can be
used by the host O/S. Can you confirm this (does the NIC
appear as a device usable for a 'local area connection' in
Win2k/NT)?

Regards,

Michael

I dont understand the question. could you please site the document, or post
a link to it so that I may properly understand the context of your question?

thx,

- LC

LC,


I dont understand the question. could you please site the document, or post
a link to it so that I may properly understand the context of your question?

Sorry, I was referring to the prev. msg. in this thread. I just
wanted to know if the NIC on the RILOE can be used independently of
the management features, eg. as a NIC in Win2k. It just seemed a
little odd that the RILOE User's Guide (PDF) would describe 'in-band'
management over ethernet if the NIC wasn't useable by the host O/S.

Regards,

Michael

No, the LAN connection on the iLo (Riloe I, II) cannot be used by the OS.
Its a managment interface only.

-LC

"msg" wrote in message
...
LC,


I dont understand the question. could you please site the document, or
post a link to it so that I may properly understand the context of your
question?

Sorry, I was referring to the prev. msg. in this thread. I just
wanted to know if the NIC on the RILOE can be used independently of
the management features, eg. as a NIC in Win2k. It just seemed a
little odd that the RILOE User's Guide (PDF) would describe 'in-band'
management over ethernet if the NIC wasn't useable by the host O/S.

Regards,

Michael