Messages in this thread | | | From | Allan Sandfeld Jensen <> | Subject | Re: Dual Athlon 2000 XP MP nightmare | Date | Sun, 16 Jun 2002 14:29:15 +0200 |
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On Sunday 16 June 2002 10:30, Mark Hounschell wrote: > Steve Cole wrote: > > I'm not sure that what I'm experiencing is a kernel problem, but I > > thought I would stick my foot in the door nonetheless, since I have no > > real indication of what is going on. > > > > I have a dual Athlon 2000+ XP MP system. It's crashing very frequently > > and looks to be getting worse. It seems to crash less with > > 2.4.19pre10-ac2 which supports the 760 bus and 744x IDE controller, but > > with something that is as intermittent as this, who can tell? > > > > Machine specs: > > > > ASUS A7M266-D motherboard, 1006 BIOS rev. > > 2GB ECC registered memory > > 4 x 15K RPM Seagate UltraSCSI drives > > 2 x 2960 (AIC7892 rev 2) controllers > > 2 x 3C59x 3Com ethernet controllers > > !USB card to free up IRQs (removed later) > > 400W power supply > > 240W power supply driving two of the hard drives + CD ROM > > Budget vid card > > 2 drives partitioned 30%/70%, 30% mirrored together for boot, 70% > > mirrored in RAID 0+1 with other drives > > > > I get EIP errors and Null pointer exception errors during full kernel > > panics. I've had a lot of file system corruption in ReiserFS originally > > and now in EXT2, both fixable though Reiser seemed worse. Uptime is > > measured in hours - usually 12 or more, sometimes two or three. > > > > I can't come up with any reasons for this that point at the kernel, but > > on the other hand, nothing is ever logged regarding SCSI I/O problems > > (verbose logging turned on in kernel with extra queue checks). I've > > replaced the > > > > > memory to no avail, and updated the BIOS' of both motherboard and > > > Adaptec > > > > cards. No memory errors are logged and one pass of memtest86 found no > > memory errors. > > > > Yet, the machine crashes semi-randomly (load seems to play some part in > > this) and often crashes during the shutdown/reboot phase if it's run > > reliably for a few hours. > > > > If it's hardware for sure, please just indicate that and I'll move on. > > I'm getting semi-desperate. :( > > First make sure you have MP cpus NOT XP's. The XP's are not certified by > amd to run SMP. Second, try append="mem=nopentium" in your lilo.conf file. > I have a dual 1900+ MP box and without that I have random lockups also. > BS and FUD!
First try to remove one processor, and test the motherboard in single CPU configuration. If you still see crashes replace the motherboard. I also have a defective Asus A7M266-D. It crashes in any configuration of CPUs, power supplies and video cards. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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