Re: Kernel lockups on dual-Athlon board -- help wanted

From: Johannes Erdfelt (johannes@erdfelt.com)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2001 - 11:44:09 EST


On Sat, Aug 11, 2001, Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > Try a completely different board and components. There are folks
> > running rock solid 2.4 on dual Athlons. I speculate yours is perhaps
> > marginal somewhere.
>
> OK...
>
> 1. By "different board" do you mean different instance of the same design, or
> different design? Because the K7 Thunder is, AFAIK, the only dual-Athlon
> 1200 board that exists right now.

I suspect he means same design, different physical hardware.

> 2. Do you know of anyone else successfully running 2.4 over an AMD 760
> support chipset?

I am.

I have had some cooling problems with some of the hardware in the past.

> 3. Which components do you think are likely to be implicated? Bad memory
> is an obvious guess, I suppose.

Cooling most likely. What kind of system is this? Rackmount? Desktop
case?

JE

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