On Thursday 09 November 2000 08:30 pm, eric h wrote:
> when my box starts up it gets to the part where it says:
> freeing unused kernel memory...ok 128k freed
>
> -then nothing-
<<>>
> my box is a homeade
<<>>
> aopen ax6bc motherboard running at 83mhz fsb
> scsi card
Not a Linux (or any other OS) problem. Following is an OT
hardware problem (overclocked).
Eric,
On that board (which is a _very good_ BX board, BTW), with a
83mhz fsb, your pci bus (that the HDD's, video card's, and including
any SCSI devices run on it) is at 41+mhz (83/2). Standard is
33.33333....mhz. Besides everything else, SCSI particularly won't
tolerate a pci bus that is that out of spec (not for long anyhow).
Your V3 AGP video card is way off spec too (83mhz @ 1:1). All those
devices are NOT overclocked, they're just plain ridiculously out of
spec. A _VERY POOR_ overclock/spec, IMNSHO.
Think of a computer system as a radio. You've been broadcasting
at a very wierd high signal, one that many system devices have been
straining or unable to read. If you didn't have such a high
quality, stable motherboard, I doubt you would'a made it this far.
I'm surprised it still boots SCSI at all.
Set your fsb back to the proper 66.666mhz and see if the problems
don't resolve themselves. That is if you haven't already ruined
some hardware. Otherwise, set your fsb to 100mhz if you think that
Celery can do it. That'll get your pci bus back to 100/3 ==
33.3mhz, and set your AGP to 2:3 (66.666mhz) for that Voodoo. If you
haven't already, put a fan on the V3's heatsink, an I sure hope
you've got'a super duty hs/fan on that Celery.
Don't try to boot Linux (or any other OS) at that speed tho.
Make a 'memtest86' floppy, and boot that, see if the system will
pass with -0- errors. Then at least it won't corrupt your Linux
ext2 fs, or your DOS registry (if you dual boot Windoze) if it
doesn't make it.
FWIW, I run a p3-450 @ 608mhz (4.5x135/33.8/89/135, BUT I use a
_pci_ Voodoo3). Fairly well overclocked, no? BUT, my pci bus is
135/4 == real close to 33.3mhz ;> and I didn't fall for any AGP
hype. Also, I wouldn't try runnin any other HDD's than IBM's,
Quantum's or older Western Digital's (2 years) IDE HDD's on an off
spec pci. If you've already done some damage, it's prob'ly to the
SCSI HDD or the AGP Voodoo.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
