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SubjectRe: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems
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On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 10:31, David Crooke wrote:
> 1. When I first put it together, it would consistenly run OK for a
> period of 4-5 minutes, quite precisely - no less than 4, no more than 5
> and then just lock up HARD - no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no kernel panics, nothing.

Turn off ACPI and APM in the bios as a starter.

> 3. Tried some BIOS settings (e.g. SMP 1.1 mode) - it DOES NOT like this;
> any BIOS changes AT ALL (even seemingly harmless ones like Num Lock)
> appear to mess it up totally, and LILO hangs at "LI" when trying to
> start. Restored factory defaults.

Make sure you have a current BIOS on dual athlon boxes, the earlier
bioses were not terribly good on the whole. Make sure you have a PS/2
mouse in the mouse port even if you aren;t going to use it

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