You may have missed the discussion a couple of days ago about the
importance of a very clean power source. What brand/model is your
power supply?
-- Rod
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On Wed, 21 May 2036, Eric Gandt wrote:
> I've owned a BP6 for just about 6months now and have had many problems.
> following is a short overview of my hardware:
> Dual C366's Overclocked to 523 5.5x97
> 3 17.2gig Maxtor HD's 2 ATA33 and 1 ATA66 (striped using LVM)
> 256megs cas2 PC125 RAM
> STB 4meg viedo card (problem is if no monitor is present during boot does not
> init)
> 1 1.44floppy, 1 16x CDROM, 1 Quantum 2000 15/30gig DLT
> running through a back UPS 1400
>
> I have tried many diffrent kernels and such over the last 6months som of the
> tried configs follow:
> 1. 2.2.12 (redhat 6.1 std), failed poor stability and does not support HPT366
> controler
> 2. 2.3.29 (with LVM, LM-sensors patch), runs well, but had many problems if no
> APIC was not included in lilo and crshed often if load hung atover 1.0 for
> more than a few min., during its life span I used NJ, QQ-B00 abd QQ_B01 with
> it with no effect.
> 3. [Current] 2.3.99pre5 (LVM, lm-sensors patch), run very well withand without
> APIC, maintained a load of 16.0+ for 2hr without crashing had 8 lost
> interrupts during the run, using the APIC flag I had the load at 12.0+ for 2hr
> and 3 lost interrupts. I was using QQ release for this test. while this is
> still not great,and over 24hr I have 18 lost interrupts, see below, it is so
> much better than ever before.
>
> While I can not say that everything fixed it is something to think about and a
> step in the right direction.
>
> BIOS (some meaning full settings from BIOS):
> MPS1.4 enabled, Memory CAS2, hold on error during boot off, USB and Video IRQ
> off, Power Managemnet off, Paralel port disabled.
>
> Current Interrupt table:
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 2440294 2501409 IO-APIC-edge timer
> 1: 6 2 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
> 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 4: 4 3 IO-APIC-edge serial
> 8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
> 10: 5947 5962 IO-APIC-edge eth0
> 13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 193757 194214 IO-APIC-edge ide0
> 15: 18738 18195 IO-APIC-edge ide1
> 17: 22 23 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
> 18: 18394 18614 IO-APIC-level ide2
> 19: 37656 37854 IO-APIC-level eth1
> NMI: 4941412 4941412
> LOC: 4941136 4941134
> ERR: 18
>
> uptime:
> 8:56am up 23:50, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
> CPUinfo: (both cpou are the same):
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 6
> model : 6
> model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
> stepping : 5
> cpu MHz : 522.486467
> cache size : 128 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr
> bogomips : 1042.02
>
> version:
> Linux version 2.3.99-pre5 (root@-----) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
> 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #16 SMP Wed Apr 12 21:17:54 EDT 2000
>
> sensors:
> w83782d-i2c-0-2d
> Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 5000
> Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter
> VCore 1: +2.11 V (min = +1.85 V, max = +2.25 V)
> VCore 2: +1.50 V (min = +1.85 V, max = +2.25 V)
> +3.3V: +3.34 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V)
> +5V: +5.11 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V)
> +12V: +11.78 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.11 V)
> -12V: -12.24 V (min = -13.21 V, max = -10.90 V)
> -5V: -5.01 V (min = -5.51 V, max = -4.51 V)
> V5SB: +4.99 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V)
> VBat: +2.11 V (min = +2.70 V, max = +3.29 V)
> fan1: 4411 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
> fan2: 4354 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
> fan3: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
> temp1: +34 C (limit = +60 C, hysteresis = +50 C, sensor = thermistor)
>
> temp2: +35.0 C (limit = +60.0 C, hysteresis = +50.0 C, sensor =
> thermistor)
> temp3: +36.5 C (limit = +60.0 C, hysteresis = +50.0 C, sensor =
> thermistor)
> vid: +2.05 V
> alarms: Chassis intrusion detection
> beep_enable:
> Sound alarm disabled
>
>
> Hope this helps someone else. I'm still searching to remove all all lost
> interrupts, but it is getting better.
>
>
>
> Eric Gandt
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