Re: PROBLEM: nForce2 keeps crashing during network activity

[Ross Dickson]

>>Jens Kübler wrote: 
 
>> Hi 
> > 
> > My computer will freeze if I produce heavy network traffic. The crashes 
> > happen after an arbitrary time and seem not to be related to hardware 
> > defects. I tried the onboard nic and the rtl8139 which worked fine for me 
> > with my old mainboard. I've copied the same file with windowsXP and tried 
> > some other heavy network traffic just to see wheater it might be an 
> > hardware error but the system was stable. After I have started to import 
> > my home directory via NFS the crashes became more often. I will crash my 
> > system if I copy a big file via SMB. 
> > I had the problem with Mandrake 9.1 and now with 9.2 and even compiled my 
> > own kernel (mandrake source) with no effect. 
> > 
> > Any suggestions? 
> > 

>Boot with noapic or acpi=off 
> --
>Regards
>Thomas

If the noapic or acpi=off stabilizes it for you and you want to run with apic
and io-apic then my patches may help.

You can find them in this thread

Updated Lockup Patches, 2.4.22 - 23 Nforce2, apic timer ack delay, ioapic edge
 for NMI debug

If unsubscribed you can find it here
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2003-12/4673.html
or here
http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/21/156

Regards
Ross Dickson

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