Any FC11 installations on Tyan Trinity KT-400 S2495?

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Has anyone successfully installed Fedora Core 11 on a system with a Tyan Trinity KT-400 S2495 motherboard?

I have two systems with this motherboard. I tried to install FC11 from the live CD. Both systems have AGP video cards based on the Nvidia GForce-2, although the cards are of different brands.

On one system, FC11 installed, but after the machine is booted and I log-in, it runs slower and slower until it is effectively frozen after about fifteen minutes. Somtimes a "Kernel Failure" window will pop up. A momentary press of the power butting will bring up a shutdown window and shut the machine down after a wait of 60 seconds.) By doing several reboots, I did manage to update the installation. (My complements to the developers on the fact that the package download will pick up where it left off). However it still freezes.

On the other system, when the Live Cd has booted, the keyboard and mouse don't work, so I can't do the installation. I tried a different keyboard and mouse, tried rebooting several times. When I boot the machine from SystemRescueCd (kernel 2.3.29) the keyboard works in the text mode. I used the "wizard" command to try various graphical modes. In the default Xorg graphical interface, the keyboard works but the mouse doesn't. In the "Vesa" graphical interface, neither the keyboard nor the mouse work. I tried the Ubuntu 8.04 live CD and the keyboard and mouse don't work. I tried an FC 8 install Cd, the keyboard works in the installation screens but the mouse doesn't. I replaced the Nvidia AGP card with a Voodoo 3dFx PCI video card. The system won't finish posting. It hangs on the second screen. This system formerly ran Windows 2000 OK and before that it ran Window 98. But perhaps it's now defective?

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Incomprehensible update:

I put the Nvidia video card back in the second machine. There is a bay insert in the case of the second machine. that wasn't there when the machine was running Windows. The insert has USB cables that plug into the USB ports at the back of the motherboard to extend the USB connections to the face of the insert. Nothing was plugged into the USB connectors on the face of the insert. However, when I unplug the USB cables from the back of the motherboard and boot from the FC11 Live CD, the .keyboard and (PS 2) mouse now work on the installation screens. (What is going on? Could the insert have some active device that the motherboard confuses with a USB keyboard and mouse?)

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Update:

The cause of the problem in the second machine is the USB cable from the card reader. PS/2 Mouse and PS/2 keyboard don't work when it is plugged-in before machine boots. It can be plugged-in AFTER the machine boots and the mouse and keyboard work. ( Don't know if cardreader itself works then, it's untested.) I installed FC11 on this machine and see no problems yet - not extensively tested however. The other machine has no cardreader.

To get info on the motherboard, you must go to "Archived Support" on the Tyan website The version 1.01 of the manual available on that site is much better than the printed version 1.00 manual that I got with the MB. The most recent BIOS is dated 12/15/04 on the TYAN web page, but after you flash with it, the date on the boot screen is 11/25/04. (Both these systems had already been updated to that BIOS.)

The system that works OK has the jumpers on "JCK 1" and "JCK 2" set to 2-3. The other system (that freezes) won't boot with the jumpers set that way, even after clearing the CMOS.. (Both systems have an Athlon XP 2200+ CPU) When the machine ran under Windows, they were both jumpers were set to 1-2. I changed JCK 1 to 2-3k changed the hard drive (just for the heck of it) . The machine boots. I installed FC11. Now can it be updated without freezing up?
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Update:

I replaced the CPU on the system that was freezing and it has been running OK for several hours under FC11.