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Subject: Re: problems with AMI motherboard
Message-ID: <1996Sep11.152329.2786@zippy.dct.ac.uk>
From: amm@tremas.tay.ac.uk (Angus Marshall)
Date: 11 Sep 96 15:23:29 +0100
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kurtm@sdsc.edu wrote:
: Hello,  I'm hoping someone can shed light on a problem I'm having with a
: new machine.  I've purchased an AMI Titan II dual pentium motherboard
: and moved my Adaptec 2940 and SCSI drive into it from my old machine. 
: The old kernel refuses to boot properly.  It seems to have problems when
: it tries to identify the devices on the PCI bus.  On the old machine it
: would report "Adaptec 294x SCSI", "S3 video", etc.  Now it reports:

: pci0 (root): configuration mode 1
: pci0 bus 0 device 0: unknown vendor/product: 0x8086/0x04a3 (class:
: bridge, subclass: host, revision: 0x11) not configured
: pci0 bus 0 device 2: unknown vendor/product: 0x8086/0x0482 (class:
: prehistoric, subclass: miscellaneous, revision: 0x04) not configured
: pci0 bus 0 device 3: unknown vendor/product: 0x1095/0x0640 (class: mass
: storage, subclass: IDE, revision: 0x02) not configured
: pci0 bus 0 device 8: unknown vendor/product: 0x9004/0x8178 (class: mass
: storage, subclass: SCSI, revision: 0x0) not configured
: pci0 bus 0 device 9: unknown vendor/product: 0x5333/0x8811 (class:
: display, subclass: VGA, revision: 0x00) not configured

<comments about SCSI and bridge chips deleted>

Looks very similar to the problems I had with an Akhter 486/DX4.

The problem was 'broken' PCI bridge chips. The only solution we could find
was a whole new motherboard from a different manufacturer.

Ah the joys of 'standards' ;-)

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