Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:38:32 +0800 | From | Frank Horowitz <> | Subject | Re: SMP crash, 440BX |
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G'Day David,
Have you tried putting heat conductive compound between the BX chip itself and its heat-sink? This has been recommended by the Abit BP6 overclockers <http://www.bp6.com/bx> as a generic BX chipset cooling strategy.
We have several Epox BXBS (dual slot I) boards, and all have been crashing/freezing routinely every few days (for months; a real pain in the behind) under any/all of SMP Linux/SMPFreeBSD/Windoze(95/UP; NT/SMP)... I reasoned that cooling couldn't hurt, and I tried it on one of the BXBSs to good effect. (There is no room for an active fan on the board, so I just used heat conductive compound...)
So far, I've reached nearly 2 weeks uptime on the unit that I've cooled (Linux 2.2.13), and that is well out into the extreme of the distribution of TBFs that we had been observing. If (when?!) it reaches 2 weeks uptime, I'm going to declare victory and cool all of the BX boards that we have in the building...
Hope this helps (and obviously, YMMV :-)
Cheers, Frank Horowitz
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