Comment 7 for bug 156551

Developers,
Well it took a while but everything works GREAT. so here is what I learned,
the Video does say out or range but only in boot up and shut down, but works
fine.
The Intel Splash screen was giving a 5A post on some boots, not all, that
has to do with SATA and PATA on Intel MOBO. If you only have one DVD/CD
player and one hard drive the BIOS, (new and old) gets confused if one is
SATA and the other is not, but if you set the DVD jumper to slave the
conflict is solved and you get B9-0 a normal boot post. This trims boot up
from 3 minutes to 10 seconds.
Also not setting the hard drive to IDE in bios but using the ASHAI or what
ever it is called works better for Intel with Linux and Ubuntu, Intel
recommends that on the 945 series and I think others as well. The disk will
run better.
I just thought I would pass this along, it might help people out who have on
UBUNTU on their machines.
Personally I Think Vista looks real good in the Dumpster!
( For what its worth the Intel people said they like Ubuntu and that it is
not nearly as problematic as Microsoft.) I hope they support you guys more.
The BIOS update was done with jumper out and the .bio file was put on a
floppy it took a while but that worked.
Turned case fans to system non control. CPU fan to system control.
Thanks thought I would just pass this along.

John

On 10/25/07, John Ryan <email address hidden> wrote:
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> Hi the reinstall did fix the screen so the wmv file will play however
> Totem hangs and cannot play a DVD but apart from that everything works
> fine except sometime the screen says in a small blue area out of range
> for a moment after it boots up, but once it is running everything is
> fine.
> I do think that perhaps Totem has a conflict with some of the Codec
> files and perhaps a better set of video drivers. But I can see how that
> could be complicated with so many video cards.
> However this is a 945gtp board with a standard intel 950 video on board
> however it does work with the 810 driver. So it must be Totem that
> cannot play DVD and at times can have a loss of picture. However now
> that seems to be fine.
> It is still FAR better than Windows and I think it will stay stable
> All in all you guys in development did and are doing one heck of a great
> job! Thanks,
> John
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