new motherboard, new problems?

[PW Armstrong]

Hey guys, thx for your all your suggestions, I will try them one by one 
and let you know what works.

I think I'll start first by upgrading to the current mozilla version, 
and see if that makes any difference.

And Lenn, I know I should upgrade the os, just have to do my own 
research and pick one to upgrade to.  But that's not a quick fix(!).

-peter


John Moniz wrote:

> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:13:21PM -0500, 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.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Perhaps your kernel is too old for the board.  RH8 is after all ancient.
>>
>> For the mouse, check the port and protocol settings.  Some motherboards
>> require different ps2 settings (if you still use a ps2 mouse, I
>> certainly don't, given USB is much more reliable and simpler to setup).
>>
>> Mozilla only ever crashes on me if I have the flashplayer plugin
>> installed, so I just don't install that anymore.
>>
>> Of course your new board may be unstable, the cpu could be unstable, or
>> the ram could be unstable, or you have a bad bios setting or a buggy
>> bios version.
>>
>> For the poweroff, you normally need apm or acpi support for that, so
>> make sure that is enabled in the bios and that the kernel knows about
>> it, and that apmd or acpid is installed as appropriate.
>>
>> Len Sorensen
>>
> I have found on two powerdown problems very similar to yours that the 
> fix was to improve the isolation of the MB from the case. You can 
> prove that by running your entire system out of the case (can be 
> tricky to have the power cables reach the MB). Powering off may work 
> then. Anyway, I used the red washers to insulate each screw on both 
> sides of the MB. It worked - on two different MBs.
>
> John.
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