Hi -
We have a large number of L440GX+'s, and have battled crashes and resets
for several months. Here's what finally worked for us:
- upgrade BIOS and BMC firmware (BIOS: 11.1, BMC: 105). These
are available from http://developer.intel.com/
- try different memory. This is the most important one. Stick to the
recommended list. (We've switched off of the recommended list (because
it's often hard to find the specific parts Intel specs) and have been
successfully using PC133 memory from Micron. Do this at your own risk.)
- with lots of SCSI activity 2.2.13 was bad for us. Kernel 2.2.14 seems
to have solved the problem (10+ machines running under heavy load for 12
days now with no crashes or resets; prior to changing to 2.2.14 we saw
resets about once/machine/day).
Our experience is very similar on Intel N440BX server motherboards.
Don Holmgren
Fermilab
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Louis Fung wrote:
> hi, everyone,
>
> sorry if I post it on the wrong mailing list.
>
> I installed 3 times, give me same result.
> I have a testing server, installed Linux (tried Mandrake 7.0 & RedHat 6.1).
> once I leave it on overnight. The next day morning, it had no screen, no video
>signal, I tried move mouse, hit keys on keyboard, even the numlock has no response.
>so, I have to reset the machine, once reset the machine, the linux boot up to
>"finding dependencies modules", it reboot or shutdown itself.
>
> here is some spec of the server.
> Intel L440GX+ motherboard (GX chipset)
> Dual Intel P3 550 CPU
> 2GB SDRAM (512MB x 4)
> on board scsi is AIC-7896
> 2x Seagate Cheeta ST39103LW (Ultra 2 - LVD)
>
> any suggestion will be appreciated.
> thank you for your time.
>
> Louis
>
>
>
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