Re: Via chipset KT133 and system instability

[Tim Wunder]

On 12/23/2002 4:40 PM, someone claiming to be Jerry McBride wrote:

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:05:50 -0500 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Anyone running an AMD-based board with a Via KT133 chipset?

Just about everything I touch has via chipssets in them... No problems to
report.

Good to know.

I've been experiencing a significant amount of system instability.

From what you describe... Are you over clocking the hardware? And have you run

a memory test on it yet? If not, grab a copy of memtest and build the boot
floppy per instruction and let it run on that box for a day or two...

No overclocking. I hesitate to run memtest86 on it, as I don't want my mailserver/webserver down for an extended period of time. I found another utility I *will* run, http://www.goldmemory.cz/, which came recommneded by someone on the #redhat IRC channel. I may run memtest for a little while, too. But it seems easier just to swap out the RAM than to test it...

I'm
currently running RH8's stock Athlon kernel, but would be willing to compile a
new kernel if that would help fix things.

Please don't flame me, but I've no respect for RedHat. Go compile your own,
you'll do a better job of it. That said, is your chipset being recognized at
boot time? I've seen a custom kernel compiled without the correct support module
included and although it booted, it ran like shit... Similar to your description
actually.

My chipset is being identified just fine, at least according to lspci -vvv, 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff
Memory behind bridge: e6000000-e8ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e4000000-e5ffffff
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 0000
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

<yada yada>

Thanks, Tim

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