Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:30:16 +0200 (IST) | From | Voicu Liviu <> | Subject | Re: [2.4] Nforce2 oops and occasional hang (tried the lockups patch, no difference) |
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 18:24, Disconnect wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:52, Disconnect wrote: > > > memory/cpu timings. (Even underclocked it to 133 and 1G with no > > > change.) So its unfortunately back on a stock 2.4.23-pre9 with > > > noapic/noacpi. (It disables one of the sets of usb ports, as I recall, > > > but it mostly works...) > > > > Update: Underclocked from 1.8G to 1.2G (whups, meant to go down only > > 2-300mhz) and its been vaguely stable for about 1.5 days. I don't have > > another week (yet..) to run it under its normal load and wait for a > > crash, so what I'm going to do is: > > - Move the workload (web/mail/..) to a different machine so this one > > can be down for an extended period > > - Replace the ram with new sticks (they arrived this morning) > > - Reclock everything to stock (1.83G cpu, 200mhz ram and verify the > > timings from kingston) > > - Replace the video card > > - Memtest86 until it cries > > - If it passes, bonnie++ on the new drives > > - If that passes, usb/acpi/apic testing with the associated patches > > > > Anyone still watching this? Tips and suggestions on what else might be > > useful/informative are more than welcome. The tests above mostly > > replicate what I did when building this box, and it passed them then.. > > > > Recap: > > Epox 8rda+ nforce2 mobo I have Epox 8rda3+ > > AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) 1.83G same > > Kingston HyperX PC3200 corsair twinx 512 (2 stiks of 256) > > WD Caviar WD1200JB 8M/UDMA100 seagate > > Antec case w/ 350W AMD-certified PSU black case (not something special) My system works with 2.4 and 2.6 even overclocked to 10x190 (1900 Mhz) Cheers
> > > > Oopses and occasional hangs, usually in do_generic_file_read, using > > stock kernel.org 2.4.2x kernels. Hardware passed testing (memtest86, > > bonnie++) before I put Linux on it. > > Does this not relate directly to the APIC/IOAPIC issues with 2.6 kernel > and nforce chipset motherboards? > > Craig > > - > 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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