new motherboard, new problems?

[PW Armstrong]

Well, here's some insight, I think the problem is a conflict between my 
kvm switch (a Black Box 'personal servswitch') and the new motherboard, 
is this possible?  I have a windows box (running xp) and my linux box 
hooked up to this switch, and when my mouse goes wonky, if I switch over 
to the windows box and then back to linux, it fixes itself.  Does the 
mouse ever go wonky on the windows box?  Sometimes it seems to jump, but 
then fixes itself.

any idea on this?

may not have anything to do with the motherboard, I guess, but it wasn't 
ever a problem before I switched in the new motherboard.

-Peter




PW Armstrong wrote:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [TLUG]: new motherboard, new problems?
Date: 	Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:24:30 -0500
From: 	PW Armstrong <pwa.linux-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
To: 	tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org

> 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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