Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:02:03 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog |
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:34:46PM +0100, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote: > Hmm, interesting observation. This makes me remeber something: When my > machine freezes doing hdparm, the cursor still blinks, but I can't do > anything anymore. Maybe a connection to your observation? I haven't > treid to run the NMI watchdog, as you guys haven't had success with it yet.
Everyone with this problem should turn on the nmi_watchdog, as someone may have the right circumstances to produce an oops where the others didn't.
I say that you're not serious about getting this fixed unless you're going to do all of:
o turn on nmi_watchdog o try the patches posted[1] o contact nvidia or your motherboard manufacturer saying you need linux support, and return the board if they don't. (phone, fax, email, or even local office if there is one)
I bought a VIA board to avoid the problems I expected from the nforce, and I needed a system (server) that would *work* now.
[1] If you're worried about your filesystem, just boot the patched kernel in single mode, and that will mount all of your filesystems read-only so there will be little chance of corruption.
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