Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Nov 1996 17:07:37 -0600 (CST) | From | Gerald Combs <> | Subject | Triton II + 6x86 hangs |
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I recently "upgraded" to a generic Triton II motherboard with a Cyrix 6x86 processor. At random times my system now hangs completely - it doesn't respond to keyboard or mouse input and I can't telnet into the machine. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when the hangs happen. Sometimes (rarely) it happens during the boot process. At other times the machine will go a full day without any problems. The only time it consistenly hangs is when xscreensaver's 'halo' module runs. After rebooting there aren't any log messages or anything else indicating that the system was having any problems.
The system consists of the motherboard, an S3 PCI video card, an NCR 53C810 SCSI controller with a Quantum HD attached, a clone NE2000 ethernet card, and a PAS 16 sound card with a CD-ROM attached.
I've tried every BIOS and kernel configuration combination I can think of, including those concerning RAM parity checking, APM, and onboard IDE controllers. The problem happens with kernel versions 2.0.22 and 2.0.24. After finding messages in the linux-kernel archives from people with similar problems, I also installed versions 2.0.10 and 1.3.100, but the problem persisted.
Does anyone know what could be causing these hangs?
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