new motherboard, new problems?

[Jason Shein]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 13:13, PW Armstrong wrote:
> installed a new motherboard a while back  (OK, OK, it's not new, but's
> it's new to my old computer)
> had some problems with monitor/graphics card settings, which I fixed
> with help from lenn (actually, there wasn't a problem, I just decided to
> ignore/not check the monitor settings, and assume it was a graphics card
> issue, which it is was not)
>
> but ever since the new motherboard went in, have been having a handful
> of other annoying glitches.
> In order of annoyance/inconvenience:
> -mouse randomly goes whacky, i.e., wanders randomly over the screen
> whenever I move the mouse, rather than tracking the physical mouse
> movement (actually, the vertical movement tracks correctly, the
> horizontal movement goes random)
> -mozilla/mozilla mail (vn 1.4.1) randomly freezes on me (never did with
> the original mb) (I think the first is related to a mozilla problem,
> since it always occurs when I'm accessing an e-mail or e-mail folder
> from mozilla)
> -when I power down, computer does not automatically shut off as it used
> to, even though the 'power down' command is executed
> The first 2 are fixed by rebooting.
>
> Oh yeah:
> -running RH 8
> -motherboard:  ASRock M810LMR
>
> Any ideas/suggestions for correcting these problems?  Thx.
>
> -peter

For starters, does the output of lspci list any "unknown" devices?

If it does, you need to update your pci.ics from http://pciids.sourceforge.net

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