I have discovered a way to consistently crash my non-overclocked dual 466
/ BP6 UDMA66 system under Linux: download the Loki Heroes3 demo file
(~95MB) to a local partition and run it. Everytime the lockup occurs,
the HDD LED on the case is stuck on. Download the demo from
http://www.lokigames.com/products/heroes3/ .
I am running RedHat 6.1 with Kernel 2.2.14, Hedrick's IDE patch from
January 24, and lm_sensors-2.4.5 patched into the kernel. I am
constantly in X (XFree86-3.3.5).
I have an es1371 soundcard and it USED to share an interrupt with the
HPT366 IDE-controller. I changed that, and my lockup frequency decreased
significantly. Previously, running two setiathome processes would crash
the thing within half an hour. But now, I have been up with two
setiathomes running for over 12 hours without failure. I haven't seen
any random failures since I removed the interrupt conflict (about 20
hours ago), but running the Heroes3 uncompress locally ALWAYS crashes the
system. Seems to me like there are some issues with heavy disk access.
I have not put any goo between the BX-chipset and the green heatsink.
And my only hard drive is connected to the HPT366 controller. Power
management is disabled in the BIOS, but I have built support for
Power-off on shutdown into the kernel.
Hopefully this description is helpful.
Christian
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