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SubjectRe: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems
Kevin Brosius wrote:
>
> >
> > 8. Rebooted again, now it's up and running and appears stable (still 1
> > CPU), so I took it up to full init 5 and it stayed up (and so I'm
> > writing this email :-) Once or twice seemed to stall again for 1-2
> > seconds (interrupt storm ???) but recovered.
> >
> > Anyone have suggestions? I'm thinking to leave it running and see if it
> > stays up. Smells of a hardware issue, but also the BIOS seems a bit
> > funny (there is a message in the Help which says "this setting for debug
> > only - remove for production" !!)
>
> I've noticed some oddities on 2.4.19 with a dual Athlon Tyan S2462 that
> look like stalls under heavy load. If you're really curious, you might
> try 2.4.18, as this was not a problem there. (I'm running SuSE kernels
> shipped with SuSE 8.0 and 8.1, although I saw similar trouble with a
> stock 2.4.19 build and stopped using it. The stalls are only minor
> though, so I haven't investigated. Maybe they are worse on that
> motherboard.)

Oh, and there's a Beta BIOS available from Tyan, which mentions a fix
for IRQ routing. Don't know if that would help or not.

http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_tg_mp.html

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Kevin
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