On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:23:24AM +0000, Roeland Th. Jansen wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I think it's probably unlikely that any of the kernel
> > heavy-weights are going to bother to debug anything on the BP6 which
> > obviously is not the most stable board in the world.
>
> interesting thought. my conversations with alan show differently.
>
> of course, you first must be pretty certain the hardware works ok and
> when my previous board was swapped (due to a hardware failure) I again
> have a very stable system. sometimes, people must have a few things
> changed.
>
> for instance. my powersupply I use can't power up the viper 550 with 256
> MB memory because the total amount of power for both 5v+3.3v exceeds the
> maximum power the supply can make.
interesting, currently using only 1 CPU on rpmfind.net but with 380 Megs
of RAM and 8 Maxtor drives running full speed I see the following:
~ -> w
8:13am up 20 days, 15:54, 2 users, load average: 19.62, 20.10, 19.20
And I'm pretty sure the power supply is not a high end one ... strange
One thing I made sure was to maximize as much as possible all DRAM access
timings in the BIOS this may help stability, but should not impact power
consumption.
> does that make the board a failure ? no, the guys who made the system
> failed here.
>
> bottom line -- my board failed due to two things. supply underrated and
> the board itself failed. the latter always can happen.
Failing board, yes definitely ... on 4 boards I tried, I had to swap 2.
Just the cost of RMA of shipped board may kill the BP6 series, I wonder
if ABit would give figures on this :-)
Daniel
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