On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:31:28PM +0000, Roeland Th. Jansen wanted to say the
following:
> 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 ?
Tried flashing the QQ bios? That worked for me. No lockups since, except one
but I am fairly certain that was because of GLX that locked up the videocard
and thus crashed the bus or something.
ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/beta/bp6/bios/BP6_QQ.zip
The normal bios download page has instructions on how to do the flashing,
see www.abit.com.tw for that.
Tuomas
PS. I rebooted to try 2.3.99-pre3, runs nicely so far and USB works great.
I do get some APIC errors to kern.log though but they dont seem to do
anything, no crashes or whatsoever:
Apr 10 22:25:14 fun112 kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
Apr 10 23:12:03 fun112 kernel: TW_REC: reject openreq 830724829/830724777
f38b0740/2464
Apr 10 23:25:08 fun112 kernel: APIC error interrupt on CPU#0, should never
happen.
Apr 10 23:25:08 fun112 kernel: ... APIC ESR0: 00000004
Apr 10 23:25:08 fun112 kernel: ... APIC ESR1: 00000006
Apr 10 23:25:08 fun112 kernel: ... bit 1: APIC Receive CS Error (hw
problem).
Apr 10 23:25:08 fun112 kernel: ... bit 2: APIC Send Accept Error.
The keyboard error is also a bit weird. But other than those everything
seems to work fine. Go figure.. And yes, I run with append="noapic"..
--
-- 12:24am up 2 days, 11:05, 12 users, load average: 0.01, 0.08, 0.08 --
.---( t i g e r t @ g i m p . o r g )---.
| some stuff at http://tigert.gimp.org/ |
`---------------------------------------'
--
=- To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the -=
=- body of "unsubscribe linux-abit". -=
