Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:37:31 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: APIC errors w/ 2.4.0-test11-pre2 |
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Rogier Wolff wrote: > > > I have seen the same problem on the same motherboard. It appears to > > be a motherboard bug that 2.4 exposes and 2.2 doesn't. > > This PRINT was added in 2.4. > > You're seeing noise on the apic lines. The APICs notice, but every now > and then you may see a lockup due to this. (i.e. if the corruption > does not trigger a parity error, because two bits flipped!) >
What I was seeing, though, was that 2.4 would lock up with an NMI deadman after a few days. 2.2 never did. Even on other hardware I see very high NMI rates, but no lockups, using 2.4.
-hpa
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