Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 15 Nov 2002 14:54:48 +0000 |
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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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