Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IO-APIC on nforce2 [PATCH] + [PATCH] for nmi_debug=1 + [PATCH] for idle=C1halt, 2.6.5 | From | Len Brown <> | Date | 27 Apr 2004 14:00:54 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:02, Arjen Verweij wrote:
> After having his box run with cat /dev/hda > /dev/null for a night > straight no lockup has occured. The brand of his motherboard is Shuttle.
My shuttle is a FN41 board in a SN41G2 system.
I found "rev 1.0" BIOS (FN41S00X of 12/18/2002) on Shuttle's ftp site and downgraded to that, but still no hang.
It may be this board never hangs no matter what, or perhaps C1 disconnect was simply disabled in that BIOS b/c there was no option for it in Advanced Chipset Features like there is for the most recent BIOS.
Other things about my board. I run "optimized defaults", I don't overclock anything. Processor is an AMD XP 2200+ Does anybody else see the hang with this processor model? I wonder if the hang is processor model or speed dependent?
> Does anyone have some input on how to tackle this problem?
Unfortunately I don't have tools for debugging nvidia + amd hardware. I would expect that those companies do, however. So encouraging them to reproduce the hang internally may be the best way to go.
> buy Len the cheapest broken nforce2 board I can find at pricewatch.com and > have it shipped to his house :)
I got tangled in this b/c this board (actually, the reference BIOS for this chipset) had some unusual ACPI related failures. If the failures turn out to be related to ACPI, I'll do what I can to help. But I expect that hardware debugging tools may be necessary before the hang issue is completely explained and solved.
-Len
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