> The BIOS is new. It is the to-be-released version from Soyo. They said it
> had been extensively tested on PIII, so I suppose it works with PIII. I
> disabled all the PM related options and all the other potential problematic
> options as stated in the smp FAQ. I only have one processor BTW. It still
> locks up, sometimes when I was typing. It doesn't seem to be a PM related
> problem. I also replace the old 250W PS with a 300W PS and it doesn't help.
> I checked the voltages and they seem to be normal. And the system actually
> doesn't seem to lock up when heavily loaded. I don't know if it is still
> possible to be a PS problem. One bad thing is that Soyo told me that thr AGP
> slot, on-board SCSI(AIC-7880) and the 4th PCI slot is hard-wired so there's
> no way to give different irq's to them. But when I use PII 350, it just
> works fine. And if it's irq sharing problem, it shouldn't be PIII specific.
> But after I shuffled the cards, the system does seem to run a little more
> stable than before. Now it may work for a few hours before freezing. It
> still freezes all the time however. I'm completely without a clue now.
Could it be a heat related problem? I don't know what type of a
heatsink/fan you're using, but I see this a lot when people put
faster/hotter processors on a board, with the same cooling provisions they
had for the old one. Try pointing a 3" muffin fan at the processor and
see what happens.
Brian Pape
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University California Los Angeles
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