Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matt H." <> | Subject | Re: nforce2 random lockups - still no solution ? | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:13:00 -0700 |
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Turn off apic in the bios.. it should then work well ..
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 11:01 am, Samuel Kvasnica wrote: > Hello, > > Last few weeks I spent quite much time trying to get working two nforce2 > chipset based motherboards with latest linux 2.4.22 - ASUS A7N8 Deluxe > 2.0 and > MSI K7N2 Delta. Althought the latest kernel version already detects > correctly all the nforce2 stuff and APIC seems to run work as well, > some random lockups still remain. At the very beginning I believed I > could get rid of lockups by setting lower udma mode on IDE (hdparm -X > udma3). > In the fact this only reduced very much the probability of lockups - > with udma5 I could freeze the system within few minutes e.g. during > kernel compilation. > with udma3 system is usually stable for several days, but sometimes it > locks. When it happens, it happens mostly during first 30 mins after boot. > I'm booting with noapic, nolapic and acpi=off, but it doesn't seem to > have really any effect on lockups. > Unfortunatelly, I can't get any debug info. I've redirected syslog to > flash-card but didn't get even a bit more of info, it seems to blow-up > the chipset completelly and immediatelly. > > Now, in the system with MSI K7N2 motherboard I have a framegrabber > (Hauppauge PVR-250) installed, using ivtv driver. > I'm able to lock-up the system when streaming uncompressed video (e.g. > cat /dev/yuv0 >/dev/null) and the lockups are also hard, w/o debug info. > The ivtv driver is using DMA very heavily but seems to work on other > chipsets. So these lock-up problems might be rather DMA then APIC related. > Interesting is that I've never had such a lock-up when running WinXP on > same computer ( :-) seems impossible), even under load and with the > framegrabber. > I've run memtest on both machines for 24 hours, it shouldn't be bad > memory. On both machines I'm using just onboard hardware, except for the > AGP graphic card > (matrox and nvidia) and the framegrabber. Hard disk is on parallel IDE, > SATA controller is disabled. > > So my conclusion is that the nforce2 lock-ups are still unsolved at the > moment. Any nforce experts around ? > > Please, reply directly using cc:, I'm not on the list. > > thanks, > > Sam > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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