Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair J Strachan <> | Subject | Re: nforce2 lockups | Date | Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:47:20 +0100 |
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On Friday 15 August 2003 20:06, Clock wrote: [SNIP] > > I have had three boards with nforce2 replaced (all of them Soltek > SL75FRN2-L) and all three did the same. However it seemed the frequency of > the crashes varies with actual piece of board.
That's certainly interesting.
> > The crashes aren't in software - bare 'cat /dev/hda > /dev/null' is > often to lock up the machine to the point that poweroff fails.
[root] 06:43 PM [/home/alistair] time cat /dev/discs/disc0/disc > /dev/null (I ctrl-C'd here)
real 1m23.275s user 0m0.979s sys 0m12.608s
I don't know how obvious the problem is on your machine, but it's clearly not an issue on this nForce2. When I was referring to software, that included the kernel i.e., I suspect it isn't a design fault.
Any other details?
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