Messages in this thread | | | From | Lenar Lõhmus <> | Subject | Re: NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11) | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:06:31 +0200 |
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Hello,
Julien Oster wrote:
> No, it's most evidently a mainboard problem, as everybody using an > ASUS A7N8X (Deluxe) reported so far that the mainboard will lock up > completely unless you turn of ACPI, APIC and local APIC. There is no > other possibility to work this lockup madness around, as many users of > that mainboard including me really tried *everything*. > > We know that other NForce2 Mainboards don't have this kind of problem, > but sadly that isn't of any help whatsoever for us A7N8X users.
I can't agree. I've had experiences with two Epox mobos - 8RDA+ running 2.6-test kernels and 8RDA3+ running 2.4.22 kernel.
Both of them locked completely up sometimes (that was after week or so without reboot). It seems that compiling Local-APIC out of kernel has stopped this behaviour. It's been about a month without lockups for 2.4 machine. 2.6 hasn't locked up either but it gets a new kernel and a reboot every week anyway.
Actually the machine with 2.4 kernel run initially 1.5 months without a glitch (and Local-APIC compiled in) before it started to lock up weekly. I don't know why. Anyway as I said disabling Local-APIC has stopped all those lockups.
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