Re: [P4DC6+] Booting problems with dual p4 on i860 chipset with 2.4 and 2.5

From: Alexander Lyamin (flx@msu.ru)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 10:39:33 EST


Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:31:38PM +0400, Alexander Lyamin wrote:
> Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:16:46AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > We have a problem with newly acquired dual p4 xeon (2.2Ghz, heperthreading
> > > blah blah) box built on i860 chipset (SuperMicro P4DC6+ motherboard).
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> >
> > I've got 6 of them here running SuSE 8.0. Hyperthreading was disabled in the
> > bios when Suse-8.0 was
> > installed and 3 of the 6 had the clock speed set at it's lowest setting when
> > they arrived but other than that there were no problems. HT was enabled after
> > the install of SuSE-8.0 and no problems there either. ?????
>
> what is your bios version Mark ?

Ok, with bios updated to 1.2b (initially we had 1.2a) AND
after toggling MPS1.4>MPS1.1>MPS1.4 and Hyperthreading OFF and then back
ON it finally boots.

P.S.
new hardware is black box full of cheap tricks most of time :)

-- 
"Cache remedies via multi-variable logic shorts will leave you crying."(cl)
Lex Lyamin
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