[ Wednesday, February 2, 2000 ] Rod Roark wrote:
> My configuration:
>
> BP6 with "old" BIOS (I forget what it's called)
same here.
> Dual 366's running at 525 Mhz, 2.1V
Kewl. I get lockups in 2-3 days running dual 366's at 366!
CPU's at 34 C and system temp at 39C (not even stressing it)
> 128M ECC PC100 SDRAM
I'm running 256M non-ecc PC133 and I have this feeling that the non-ecc
nature of it is causing at least a few lockups... wish the BP6 kept
a little log of such problems like our machines at work :)
> AOpen HX45A case with associated 250W power supply
300W PS here and still issues.... ugh :)
> WD 18G UDMA 7200 RPM HD as /dev/hda
9.1GB 7200 as /dev/sda on 3960D adaptec
> ATAPI CD-ROM as /dev/hdc (using SCSI emulation)
> Floppy drive
ditto
> RIVA TNT 16MB AGP video, 1280x1024, 24-bit color
Voodoo3-2000 AGP 2x, 1280x1024, 16-bit
> ISA NE2000 clone on IRQ 10
> Creative Labs AudioPCI sound
Hmmm interesting... I had been going along the thoughts that the ISA
support on the BP6 was marginal (since I was starting to correlate
problems with xmms playing) but your ne2k may invalidate that idea.
> Red Hat 6.0
> KDE 1.1.2 running 24/7
E 0.16.3, gnome, RH 6.1 on this box.
> If someone has something I should test, let me know... but please be
> specific.
swap to non-ecc memory :) or find out if there's any method to log
any cases of ECC getting used (it caught and fixed a problem)
Thoughts:
Flaky Celeron's, or ones half-baked in OC testing
"true" and fake PC100 memory, ECC and not
BX heat? (why is my system temp 5C higher than CPU's?)
slot 3, slots 4+5 (I'm only using 4 in my machine, not 3, not 5)
What I *believe* has been a pattern is that after a long time
running xscreensaver, I'll hop back on the machine and
work for maybe 10-15 minutes and get a lock, even though
it had been running fine for hours.
*Broken* BIOS. Abit would do well to publish a "debug bios" that
was bloated but barfed up nice debug messages in situations
that shouldn't happen (mass-assert) just to get a better
feedback mechanism in place. (Or else they know how the
BP6 is broken and just want to ride out its life-cycle)
James
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