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From: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>
To: scott@thomasons.org
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Reliable hardware
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:08:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF76302.7040503@cora.nwra.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200212102000.54287.scott@thomasons.org

scott thomason wrote:

>On Tuesday 10 December 2002 03:00 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
>  
>
>>Random lockups on dual athlons are a notorious problem under all
>>OS's. Start by checking it passes memtest86, that will verify the
>>RAM is ok - and the AMD is -very- picky about RAM.
>>
>>If thats ok then let me know which board you have, what is plugged
>>into it and what PSU you are using.
>>    
>>
>
>I have two AMD MP 2000+ cpus in an ASUS A7M266-D. Even after returning 
>my memory for new chips the store owner memtest86'd, my combo of cpus 
>and mobo was finding the occasional error. I finally ended up 
>resolving it by simply underclocking the bus about 6Mhz :( 
>
>Next time, I'm buying ECC memory.
>---scott
>  
>
Is there a good site for pointers towards assembling reliable Linux 
machines?  It seems to me the trickiest part of the whole operation is 
choosing good hardware in the first place.  I just started a new job and 
inherited a buch of new but flakey machines, and I'd like to avoid doing 
that in the future.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-10 17:49 Oops on linux 2.4.20-ac1 Orion Poplawski
2002-12-10 21:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-11  2:00   ` scott thomason
2002-12-11 16:08     ` Orion Poplawski [this message]
2002-12-11 16:33       ` Reliable hardware John Bradford
2002-12-11 17:01       ` Alan Cox
2002-12-11 17:21         ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2002-12-11 23:35         ` Patrick Finnegan
2002-12-12  1:24           ` Alan Cox
2002-12-11 16:10     ` Oops on linux 2.4.20-ac1 Orion Poplawski
2002-12-11 23:00   ` Orion Poplawski

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