(This guy's problem has been resolved)
Some people experience all kinds of hassle with the BP6
motherboard. Many others of us, though, have no problems
whatsoever. I've been happily using it, both with dual celeron
466's and, before that, with one 400 and one 466 (!), without
problems. I also use the built-in UDMA/66 controller with no
problems.
The major trick seems to be to make SURE you have a stable BIOS.
Update at least to QQ, preferably RU. This fixes the majority
of the problems. There are no guarantees that it will fix your
problems, though.
Note that I added an extra fan on the front of my case, put
thermal paste on the two CPUs, and added thermal paste and a fan
to the BX chip. This may have helped. ;-)
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> I'm running with an Abit BP6 board. I've had many problems with the
> HPT366 controller, so I bought a promise ATA/100 controller. I recommend
> you don't use ide2 and ide3 on the board.
>
> Also, there appears to be other stability issues with the BP6 that I found
> in the archives. Right now I'm running an experimental bios (I don't
> recall which one), and I still get the occasional
>
> Aug 12 16:57:56 frame kernel: unexpected IRQ vector 157 on CPU#0!
>
> which causes my tulip ethernet card to become non-functional, and an
> occasional DMA timeout problem related to my ISA sound card which freezes
> the entire system within seconds.
>
> I've tried 4 different bioses and 5 different kernels. I'm using the SuSE
> kernel (2.2.16), with Mandrake 7.1, because it has LVM, ReiserFS, and the
> IDE patch that supports UDMA.
>
> From what I've read, the BP6 isn't suitable for linux and you'll have more
> problems than would be worth the trouble. Unfortunately, if I continue to
> have problems with this board, I'll have to put another board in and use this
> board with another OS.
>
> Good luck.
> -Troy
>
> > > I enabled smp and now it crashes. I running an abit bp6 board.
> > > 2 celeron 466's
> > > 188m ram
> > > no scsi
> > >
> > > If i disable smp in the kernel and rebuilt it, it boots fine.
> > > Any suggestions or solutions. Is this my fault or a bug. Im not sure.
> > > thanks alot.
>
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