From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:44:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:44:12 -0400 Received: from quattro.sventech.com ([205.252.248.110]:18954 "HELO quattro.sventech.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:43:58 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:44:09 -0400 From: Johannes Erdfelt To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Alan Cox , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: Kernel lockups on dual-Athlon board -- help wanted Message-ID: <20010811124409.Y3126@sventech.com> In-Reply-To: <20010811062349.A1769@thyrsus.com> <20010811123200.F6024@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010811123200.F6024@thyrsus.com>; from esr@thyrsus.com on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:32:00PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 11, 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Alan Cox : > > Try a completely different board and components. There are folks > > running rock solid 2.4 on dual Athlons. I speculate yours is perhaps > > marginal somewhere. > > OK... > > 1. By "different board" do you mean different instance of the same design, or > different design? Because the K7 Thunder is, AFAIK, the only dual-Athlon > 1200 board that exists right now. I suspect he means same design, different physical hardware. > 2. Do you know of anyone else successfully running 2.4 over an AMD 760 > support chipset? I am. I have had some cooling problems with some of the hardware in the past. > 3. Which components do you think are likely to be implicated? Bad memory > is an obvious guess, I suppose. Cooling most likely. What kind of system is this? Rackmount? Desktop case? JE