Messages in this thread |  | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: 2.4. continues after Aieee... | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:11:06 +0000 (GMT) |
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Dennis writes: > >Not every case causes a panic either. This week, I had an instance of > >an i686 box lock solid with a DFE-530TX net card. Rebooting/power > >cycling it didn't recover it (despite it working for the past month > >without any problems). It only started working again after I moved > >it into a different PCI slot. > > > >I've seen a couple of instances now on totally different hardware where > >it is possible to lock a PCI bus solid by improper connections on some > >of the PCI bus lines, so a faulty PCI socket seem to be the most likely > >cause. > > > theres nothing that software can do with a pci bus lockup. You need a > hardware watchdog to reboot the system for this type of failure.
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