When I had 36 day uptime with QQ-beta2 a while ago I thought I was getting
this beast stable... Stable my ass.
Basicly I'm having three kind of symptoms:
o (without "noapic") The system occasionally becomes VERY slow, disk
access seem to never complete, beeps last for ever, 'reboot' never
completes.
o (without "noapic") Classic lockups. Often (but not always) when playing
with opengl, so nvidia driver and kernel module could have something to
do with it. They also happen when using es1370 every now and then
(playing mp3).
o (with "noapic") Tons on "stuck in IPI waits, and the machine locks up
for five seconds. These seem to mostly happen when I move mouse, but I
can't think of anything else that could be related.
I've been running with noapic only for a day, so I can't say for sure if
the first two symptoms happen with it. The third sympton never showed up
without noapic, but then again I also upgraded to RU release bios when I
rebooted, so it could be that just as well. Is the thumb-rule with Abit:
"release bioses are ALWAYS fucked up big time"?
Without apic I was getting sympton 1 or 2 every 2-5 days. This was with QQ
final and RU beta.
No hardware has changed after the 36-day uptime (which was terminated with
a slowdown). I have a Geforce in the AGP slot, ES1370 in PCI2 and 905B in
PCI4. So I gather it should be okay IRQ-wise.
I'm not sure which release this BP6 is, but the VTT never changes more
than 0.03V (1.47<->1.53, most often 1.48-1.52).
QQ-beta2 seemed to be the most stable, but it just doesn't seem to be
logical that the later bioses would reintroduce the bug again. Perhaps
I'll have to go back to QQ-beta2 again.
What's that "Stuck in IPI wait" anyway?
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