Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:14:32 -0500 | From | Kevin Brosius <> | Subject | Re: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems |
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Kevin Brosius wrote: > > > > > 8. Rebooted again, now it's up and running and appears stable (still 1 > > CPU), so I took it up to full init 5 and it stayed up (and so I'm > > writing this email :-) Once or twice seemed to stall again for 1-2 > > seconds (interrupt storm ???) but recovered. > > > > Anyone have suggestions? I'm thinking to leave it running and see if it > > stays up. Smells of a hardware issue, but also the BIOS seems a bit > > funny (there is a message in the Help which says "this setting for debug > > only - remove for production" !!) > > I've noticed some oddities on 2.4.19 with a dual Athlon Tyan S2462 that > look like stalls under heavy load. If you're really curious, you might > try 2.4.18, as this was not a problem there. (I'm running SuSE kernels > shipped with SuSE 8.0 and 8.1, although I saw similar trouble with a > stock 2.4.19 build and stopped using it. The stalls are only minor > though, so I haven't investigated. Maybe they are worse on that > motherboard.)
Oh, and there's a Beta BIOS available from Tyan, which mentions a fix for IRQ routing. Don't know if that would help or not.
http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_tg_mp.html
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