Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 07 May 2003 16:20:36 -0400 | From | Chris <> | Subject | Re: Tyan Tiger MP + 2.4.20 |
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I disabled APM and ACPI long ago with my Tiger MPX with dual MP 1600's. Ever since I've had no issues at all with the box. I had random issues at boot mostly with ACPI enabled, since I had no need for either APM or ACPI I canned them both and things are just peachy now.
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 12:07:02PM -0400, Ken Witherow wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2003, Steve Spencer wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > > > Has anyone else experienced stability issues with 2.4.20 and Tyan Tiger > > MP mobo/Athlon MP processors? > > I think it may be a power management issue since reboot doesn't work > > properly; the machine screens go into power save mode but the box doesnt > > come back up ... > > > > Any thoughts? > > I have a 2460 wtih dual 1800 MPs. When I first got it, I had all kinds of > weird stability issues (random hangs, spontaneous reboots, etc) which > turned out to be a power supply that just wasn't beefy enough. Each of > the processors can eat up to 66 watts, so by the time you throw in drives, > AGP cards, etc, you're drawing a lot of power. I upgraded to a top quality > 550 watt power supply and the stability issues cleared up. > > As for hanging after rebooting, it appears to be related to ACPI in 2.4 > not being complete, as 2.5 works as expected. > > -- > Ken Witherow <phantoml AT rochester.rr.com> > ICQ: 21840670 AIM: phantomlordken > http://www.krwtech.com/ken > > - > 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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