Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Nov 1996 17:37:33 +0000 (GMT) | From | Peter Denison <> | Subject | Re: Triton II + 6x86 hangs |
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On Sat, 2 Nov 1996, Gerald Combs wrote:
> I recently "upgraded" to a generic Triton II motherboard with a Cyrix > 6x86 processor. At random times my system now hangs completely - it > doesn't respond to keyboard or mouse input and I can't telnet into the > machine. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when the hangs > happen. Sometimes (rarely) it happens during the boot process. At other > times the machine will go a full day without any problems. The only time > it consistenly hangs is when xscreensaver's 'halo' module runs. After > rebooting there aren't any log messages or anything else indicating that > the system was having any problems. > > The system consists of the motherboard, an S3 PCI video card, an NCR > 53C810 SCSI controller with a Quantum HD attached, a clone NE2000 > ethernet card, and a PAS 16 sound card with a CD-ROM attached. > > I've tried every BIOS and kernel configuration combination I can think > of, including those concerning RAM parity checking, APM, and onboard IDE > controllers. The problem happens with kernel versions 2.0.22 and 2.0.24. > After finding messages in the linux-kernel archives from people with > similar problems, I also installed versions 2.0.10 and 1.3.100, but the > problem persisted. > > Does anyone know what could be causing these hangs?
Is the Hard disk light on when it has hung? Does this happen only with the Triton hard disk support enabled? I have the problem with a pucker P133 if DMA is enabled and I am beginning to suspect that it is simply (!?) IDE bus hangs.
-- Peter Denison <peterd@pnd-pc.demon.co.uk> Currently (still) working on a driver for Promise cards under Linux.
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