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Originally posted by: mckennma
I would check the power supply.

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I have not done this yet because I do not have a spare at the moment. I could swap one out of my other pc but since I use this as a mythtv box I have to be a little cautious when I do this or the girlfriend will not be happy with me.

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Originally posted by: redclawkefar
If it works fine, then check both CPUs in CPU0 (first CPU),

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I have done that and both cpus work correctly in CPU0 and have ecc errors in CPU1

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Originally posted by: redclawkefar
if both works fine in CPU0, replace the board.

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That I will not do as these boards are still expensive and it works absoultely fine with 4GB of memory connected to CPU0. This is a personal desktop computer so its not like I need any more memory than that right now but it would be nice to have the added bandwith of dual channel dual cpu memory. I may contact TYAN for a paid rma (got the board on ebay) if they think they can fix the problem for $75 but I have some worries about this.

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Originally posted by: redclawkefar
so it sounds like a board error... has tech support responded to your inquiry?

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No, I'll try to get back to them on this one.

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Main RIG:
TYAN 2885 2 Opteron 850s running 64bit amd64 gentoo linux 2006.0

Old system:
TYAN 2460 with 2 Athlon MPs 2200 with 1GB of corsair pc2100 reg ecc and 1 GB of MT pc2700 reg ecc and about 700GB of hard disk space (ide, sata and 15K scsi) for my mythTV data...

Quick question... Can the bios from the 2885 be flashed from a cd or dvd as I do not have a floppy disk in my pc and my os is linux?

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Main RIG:
TYAN 2885 2 Opteron 850s running 64bit amd64 gentoo linux 2006.0

Old system:
TYAN 2460 with 2 Athlon MPs 2200 with 1GB of corsair pc2100 reg ecc and 1 GB of MT pc2700 reg ecc and about 700GB of hard disk space (ide, sata and 15K scsi) for my mythTV data...

Yes, of course. I'd suggest that you flash from a bootable USB-Stick. That's the easiest way to do it and the K8W S2885 has no problems to boot from USB.

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Regards,
  Ghostrider

·CPUs - 2*Opteron 246
·Mainboard - Tyan Thunder K8W S2885ANRF
·RAM - 4*Corsair TwinX1024RE-3200LL (4GB, 8*512MB, DDR400, 2-3-2)
·Graphics - HIS IceQ-II X800Pro
·HDD - Western Digital Raptor WD740GD, 74GB, 10k
·RAID - 3Ware 7850, 64bit PCI, 8chn hardware RAID
·RAID-HDDs - 5*WD800JB
·Optical - 1*SlimSize CD-ROM; 1*NEC7441 DVD-RW
·Sound - Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro

Ya, go with the USB stick... why waste a CD on a little bios?

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SYSTEM-1: 2x Viewsonic VX900-2 19"| Tyan S2885ANRF (Rev.A, bios v2.07) | 1x ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256MB | 2x AMD Opteron 248-HE Single-Core CPU | 8x 512mb PC3200 Corsair XMS Series ECC Reg. (CMX512RE-3200LL) | 2x Seagate LVD 36.7Gb U320 SCSI 10,000rpm RAID0 (ST336607LW) | 1x Seagate LVD 36.7Gb U320 SCSI 1

A re-writeable cd, is not wasting a cd

But you can more easily add files to an USB stick or change them. So it will save time. I vote for USB-Stick.

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Regards,
  Ghostrider

·CPUs - 2*Opteron 246
·Mainboard - Tyan Thunder K8W S2885ANRF
·RAM - 4*Corsair TwinX1024RE-3200LL (4GB, 8*512MB, DDR400, 2-3-2)
·Graphics - HIS IceQ-II X800Pro
·HDD - Western Digital Raptor WD740GD, 74GB, 10k
·RAID - 3Ware 7850, 64bit PCI, 8chn hardware RAID
·RAID-HDDs - 5*WD800JB
·Optical - 1*SlimSize CD-ROM; 1*NEC7441 DVD-RW
·Sound - Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro

Ok, thanks. I have a 2GB usb stick (micro drive) the only problem is it is formatted for ntfs and I have data on it but I guess I could repartition it.

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Main RIG:
TYAN 2885 2 Opteron 850s running 64bit amd64 gentoo linux 2006.0

Old system:
TYAN 2460 with 2 Athlon MPs 2200 with 1GB of corsair pc2100 reg ecc and 1 GB of MT pc2700 reg ecc and about 700GB of hard disk space (ide, sata and 15K scsi) for my mythTV data...