From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:53:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:53:11 -0500 Received: from dsl2-09018-wi.customer.centurytel.net ([209.206.215.38]:54163 "HELO thomasons.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:53:09 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: scott thomason Reply-To: scott@thomasons.org To: Alan Cox , Orion Poplawski , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Oops on linux 2.4.20-ac1 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:00:54 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <3DF6291C.3090100@cora.nwra.com> <1039554145.14175.70.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1039554145.14175.70.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200212102000.54287.scott@thomasons.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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