Just to muddy the water a bit, I got an Asus P2B-D and two PIII-600e
processors to replace the Abit BP6 that I was having some problems with. I
am getting approx 100 APIC errors/ day on this setup. I have had several
locks - the initial BIOS (1010) on the board did not support the 600e well,
but the 1012 version seemed to fix that (only 1 lock since the upgrade).
According to lm_sensors, voltages & temps look good.
Rather than leave it lying around, I put the BP6 into another case, and,
voila! - it has been running flawlessly w/o any (APIC or otherwise) errors
since.
The Asus machine is a workstation - this is the one I work on most of the
time. The Abit machine is a server - file & print, local dns, mail, etc.
Also the location of VMware - need it for Quicken until yacc or gnucash or
whatever is up to snuff - which I run via ssh.
The two systems:
mobo Asus P2B-D mobo, BIOS 1012 Abit BP6 mobo, BIOS
QQ
CPU cool TennMax P3STF hs/fans Alpha hs/fans,
thermal grease
BX cool thermal grease thermal grease, fan
case cool 2 in, 2 out 1 in, 1 out
CPU 2 x PIII 600e 1.65V, 100Mhz FSB 2 x Celeron 366 2.0V, 66Mhz
FSB
RAM 2 x 128 CAS2 DIMM 2 x 128
PC-100 DIMM
SCSI Adaptec 2940U2W controller N/A
chan0 sda 9.1G LVD
sdb 9.1G LVD
chan1 st Seagate 8000N
IDE Onboard ATA-33 controller Onboard IDE ATA-33
Controller
chan0 hda Asus 50x CDROM hda Quantum 9.1G
chan1 hdb Conner 1.5G
hdc HP CD-RW hdc Asus
40x CDROM
AGP Viper 770 32MB Matrox G200 16MB
PCI1 Adaptec 2940U2W
PCI2 Intel Pro 100b NIC @ 100FD Intel Pro 100b NIC @
100FD
ISA1 SB-16
OS RH 6.1 + 2.3.51 + lm_sensors RH 6.1 + 2.2.14 +
lm_sensors
lilo param append="mem=256M noapic" append="mem=256M
noapic"
I am more than a little disappointed in the fact that the new system is
generating these errors, although I would not calssify it as "un-stable" at
this point. I'm not totally happy to call it "stable" either.
One of my co-workers was quick to see the emergence of a pattern and hit
upon the ultimate solution:
1) My newest computer is a problem.
2) I put together a new one, it becomes a problem, the former problem is
well behaved.
QED: Obviously, to fix my latest computer, I need to build another!
It's beautiful...
Jim McEver
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Chiappa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:02 AM
To: Discussion List for Linux on Abit Motherboards
Subject: [LINUX-ABIT] Re: Recommended parts/softwares ?
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 04:49:47PM -0800, Taro OKAMOTO wrote:
> I am thinking about buying a Linux SMP system with Abit-BP6. I am
> concerned, however, about the lockup problems discussed here because
> the stability is quite important for me. It appears some people have
> good experiences with the new BIOS, but others don't.
> So, are there any "recommended" combinations of parts (memory, HDD,
> case, etc) and OSes (such as kernel version, patches, distributions)
> that "almost certenly" run stably?
My recommendation would be to just spend the extra $50-$100 and get a real
dual slot1 board with two slocket adapters. The BP6 looks great on paper,
but if you're one of the people for whom QQ doesn't cure your problems, the
money you saved is going to start looking a lot less worthwhile. :)
QQ has mostly solved my lockup problmes as long as I don't overclock, but I
definitely don't feel "confident" in this board at all.
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