Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 08 Nov 2001 22:10:33 -0500 | From | Tom Zych <> | Subject | ECS K7S5A bus problem may be causing file corruption |
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(Apologies for munged address, I don't have a good spam solution yet. No need to CC me.)
There appears to be a marginal bus problem with some ECS K7S5A boards, which may be contributing to some of the file corruption problems people have reported. Try running Memtest86 ( http://www.memtest86.com/ ) with the CPU (and possibly FSB) speed set to 100, then 133. If 100 is ok and 133 isn't, check out http://65.66.90.193/K7S5A_Corruption_Fix_V131.pdf (warning: pdf) for details. My own machine exhibits completely reproducible errors using either or both DIMMS when the CPU/FSB speed is 133/133, and no errors at 100/100 or 100/133.
Memtest86 is run from a boot floppy and doesn't use the hard drives, so this is unrelated to the kernel / IDE. A couple of people have had trouble under Linux but not Windows, so this may not be the only issue. It should be eliminated on a given machine before testing kernel patches, though.
Hope this helps, -- Tom Zych freethinker_DEATHTOSPAM@pobox.com - 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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