IAN,
Your BX chipset controller is probably overheating. The BX chipset
contrtoller overheats from controlling all the SMP contention for resources
and fails. Remove the green heatsink by pinching the plastic clips, then
grease it with thermal paste (paper thin) and replace it. Aslo, increasing
your case ventilation and making sure air moves accross the board and you
have no air short-circuits. Read about proper case ventilation at:
www.heatsink-guide.com
Watch for my article "Building an 1100 MHz Linux Superstation"
apppearing on www.aboutlinux.com in the next few days. It details a lot of
information on SMP, overclocking, the BP-6 board, and performance of IO
bound vs CPU bound processes with SMP and overclocking.
-David Green
Research Engineer
SRI International
(732) 427-6435
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 8:53 PM
To:
Subject: BP6 lockups
Anyone having trouble with their BP6 locking up hard after a doing a few
hours work? At night I leave the machine going with two SETI@HOME clients
going and when I turn the monitor on in the morning the machine is locked
up hard. No image on the screen either. Just total black screen.
Control/alt/delete doesn't respond, Control/alt/backpace doesn't kill the
X server. Magic keys don't do anything, can't even make the numlock or
capslock lights go on/off with the keyboard. It's not a heat issue, I
have that pretty well under control now. I'm using 2.3.18ac10.
I'd use 2.2.12 but for some reason my TV card locks the machine up.
Damned one way or the other. Sigh. Thanks.
Ian Ehrenwald
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