Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.4] Nforce2 oops and occasional hang (tried the lockups patch, no difference) | From | Disconnect <> | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:40:12 -0500 |
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Thanks greatly for the tips, btw. Its much appreciated :)
Also, I think I forgot to mention (doh) its an Epox 8rda+.
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 21:25, Ross Dickson wrote: > I am not certain your problems are nforce2 type specific. > Standard response: I don't suppose you can try a different stick of ram?
Unfortunately not - its a single kingston hyper-x 3200 stick. (In theory I'll be moving it up to 700M or a gig in the next couple months, at which point I'll be in position to swap ram around and so forth.) I did get the bios all tuned and run memtest-mmx on it for 24 hours before the system installation though, and it passed. What I did yesterday is turn the memory frequency down from 200 to 166. (Which leaves the cpu overclocked by about 33 mhz, something I think it will survive just fine ;) ..)
> The local apic ack delay timing patch needs athlon cpu and amd/nvidia ide on in > kern config to kick in. If you are using it then I highly recommend uniprocessor > ioapic config as well to go with it to route the 8254 timer irq0 through pin 0 of > ioapic as using the apic config alone leaves a lot of ints generated on irq7 > which can cause problems. (Reason for 8259 making them spurious on irq7 > is explained in 8259A data sheet)
Thats how I'm running it now - its gone about 1 day without any oopses. (In the past it would go anywhere from hours to about a week, so the results aren't in yet.)
On the basis of it being a memory issue I poked around the epox site and noticed something I hadn't seen before - they recommend what might be different memory timings (I'll have to check if/when it crashes again):
If your PC3200 memory is not stable try the following BIOS settings:
Memory Frequency = 100% Memory Timing = Expert T(RAS) = 7 T(RCD) = 3 T(RP) = 3 CAS Latency = 2.5
Adjust the memory frequency above until you reach the resulting frequency of 200MHz (for PC3200).
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