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From: scott thomason <scott@thomasons.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Oops on linux 2.4.20-ac1
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:00:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212102000.54287.scott@thomasons.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1039554145.14175.70.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11  1:53 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 [this message]
2002-12-11 16:08     ` Reliable hardware Orion Poplawski
2002-12-11 16:33       ` 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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