Joe Laudadio wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Jonathan Hseu wrote:
>
> > Just curious, does anyone have a system that hasn't crashed for over
> > 2 weeks or so? I get occasional crashes in which I get no response from the
> > kernel (even with SysRQ), and I assume it is a BIOS crash. This happens around
> > once a week. I was wondering if anyone somehow stopped crashes entirely, and
> > what BIOS settings they use.
> >
>
> My bp6 @500 is pretty solid (knock knock knock on wood). I'm
> running kernel 2.4.0-test1 currently but I've had great success with
> 2.3.99pre3 and up. I see an APIC error maybe once per month at the
> most. Now mind you, I have nothing connected the HPT366 controller. I'm
> still using the LP bios (yes, I know its old but if it aint
> broke...). This is my machine at home and its on constantly. I'd show you
> an uptime but Xfree86 4.0 has a tendency to crash the machine (this is
> almost certainly completely unrelated to the bp6 board). Before I started
> using Xfree86 4.0, the box would stay up until I told it go down.
Even if "starting to use XF 4.0" started to cause you problems, that
doesn't mean that the motherboard isn't to blame.
Debugging hardware problems is VERY VERY hard.
Maybe XFree 4.0 is causing the video card to actually consume a lot of
power, so that the motherboard cannot sustain enough voltage on the
CPU core power line?
This is still the board's fault, but seems very related to XFree 4.0, as
it didn't occur when you didnt' run XFree 4.0.
Roger.
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