AMD 2.4.17 hard freeze

AMD 2.4.17 hard freeze

[Marc A. Ohmann]

I don't know if this is related to the "Athlon PSE/AGP Bug" thread since that seems to be openGL related.

I recently built an Athlon 1700+, 1GB DDR, GeForce2 MX-400 AGP system on a Soyo SY-K7V Dragon for a customer.  Slack 8 installed without a hitch but once I got the system up and running 2.4.17 the system would randomly freeze.  The freezes often happen during kernel compiles but they have also happened under no load at all.

I thought it sounded like a hardware problem but I installed W2k on it the other night and now it has been up for 2 days with no problems.

I really don't have much to offer for diagnostics but I am willing to try anything that is suggested.

The freezes seem to be fairly repeatable and happen on 8/10 kernel compiles.  I have tried compiling in init 3 and with no modules loaded but it still freezes.

Thanks for any help,
 
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Re: AMD 2.4.17 hard freeze

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Marc A. Ohmann wrote:

> I don't know if this is related to the "Athlon PSE/AGP Bug" thread since that seems to be openGL related.
> 
> I recently built an Athlon 1700+, 1GB DDR, GeForce2 MX-400 AGP system
> on a Soyo SY-K7V Dragon for a customer.  Slack 8 installed without a
> hitch but once I got the system up and running 2.4.17 the system would
> randomly freeze.  

With the Slackware 8 default kernel (which one they are using, btw?) the
system is stable ?

Re: AMD 2.4.17 hard freeze

[Marc A. Ohmann]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 10:20:34AM -0800, Serguei Miridonov wrote:
> Please, try this and let me know if it helps...
> 
> http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev/Linux/VIA/VIA-latency-linux.html
> 
The problem sounds the same but I don't have anything on the pci bus.  The nic is in the VIA266 chipset, graphics is AGP

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Re: AMD 2.4.17 hard freeze - Update

[Marc A. Ohmann]

2.2.19 from slack bare.i also froze today (during a 2.4.17 compile).  I added the mem=nopentium a couple days ago and there was no difference.  Win2K worked successfully for the 3rd day in a row. :-(

after the freezes I almost always have to run e2fsck manually on the partition with the sources -- I assume thats because its such a hard freeze

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