hi *,
I have had a BP6 since end of oct 1999 and all ran pretty well for
quite some time. I could run SETI's without problems, do whatever I
wanted. Uptimes in excess of 30 days and mostly a reboot was required
for another kernel or so.
For whatever reason, from one day to another, my system started to lock
up hard. I found that when I ran setiathome, the system crashed. Could
take between 30 seconds and, say 2 days.
I got memtest86 and started to test. Failed quickly. Took out the DIMM
and put in another. This ran for alomost 2 days. I put back in the
original DIMM .. all OK too.
I started setiathome and that crashed after approx 1 day.
Basically I can't run seti nor the memtest anymore all over sudden.
What I did is this :
1) checked and added thermal compound for the celerons
(466 MHz, non-OC)
2) added thermal compound for the BX chip
3) added a fan on top of the BX chip.
4) swapped all memory (2x128MB DIMM) in every combination in the slots.
5) tried a different power supply that puts out more power compared to
the standard supply.
6) removed all cards except for video, disconnected all disks, except
floppy.
7) tried an PCI VGA card instead of AGP
8) used quickfreeze to cool components
9) checked the system temps (normal 30/30/35 and at load 50/50/55)
still the system is not stable. Linux works fine, make -j 20 bzImage
works, etc. the things that don't work, are memory intensive -- memtest
as an user process, memtest86 as a bootdisk-started process, setiathome.
anyone else who has tips what I could do, before I try to swap the board
at the place I bought it ?
Roeland (jumping off the building soon :-)
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