Re: nforce2 lockups

[Alistair J Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>]

On Friday 15 August 2003 20:06, Clock wrote:
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>
> I have had three boards with nforce2 replaced (all of them Soltek
> SL75FRN2-L) and all three did the same. However it seemed the frequency of
> the crashes varies with actual piece of board.

That's certainly interesting.

>
> The crashes aren't in software - bare 'cat /dev/hda > /dev/null' is
> often to lock up the machine to the point that poweroff fails.

[root] 06:43 PM [/home/alistair] time cat /dev/discs/disc0/disc > /dev/null
(I ctrl-C'd here)

real    1m23.275s
user    0m0.979s
sys     0m12.608s

I don't know how obvious the problem is on your machine, but it's clearly not 
an issue on this nForce2. When I was referring to software, that included the 
kernel i.e., I suspect it isn't a design fault.

Any other details?

Cheers,
Alistair.