Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:53:31 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: Locked up 2.4.10-pre11 on Tyan 815t motherboard. |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > Doubtful. Since it's an 815, I presume you're running a PIII (correct me if > > I'm wrong) - newish PIIIs have reasonable overheating cutout features, and > > if overheating had damaged the CPU, I'd be very surprised if it worked at > > all, rather than just locking up on certain sizes of network packets. > > The 815 chipsets have known (and documented) problems with out of spec > memory signals. Board vendors are supposed to have used workarounds but I > have so far sent back 2 out of the 3 A/Open i815 boards with problems where > they locked up occasionally under high load (in any OS) and also failed > memtest86 (with known good tested ram) when placed in an electrically noisy > environment. > > I've seen lockups on high network load as part of that - but not packet size > dependant ones.
Damn..someone has to make good stable motherboards...anyone got any suggestions for one that will fit into a 1U server, with built-in Video and preferably a NIC? I had ok luck with an Intel board based on the 815 chipset, so long as I used the e100 driver...maybe I'll have to go back to it...
Thanks, Ben
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