From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 May 2001 08:49:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 May 2001 08:49:17 -0400 Received: from server1.safepages.com ([216.127.146.3]:43278 "HELO server1.safepages.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 2 May 2001 08:49:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3AEFB8BE.5050007@surfbest.net> Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:35:26 -0500 From: Moses McKnight User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-ac13 i686; en-US; rv:0.8.1+) Gecko/20010427 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DISCOVERED! Cause of Athlon/VIA KX133 Instability In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark Hahn wrote: >> Actually, I think there are 2 problems that have been discussed -- the >>disk corruption and a general instability resulting in oops'es at >>various points shortly after boot up. >> > > I don't see this. specifically, there were scattered reports > of a via-ide problem a few months ago; this is the issue that's > gotten some press, and for which Alan has a fix. and there are reports > of via-smp problems at boot (which go away with noapic). I see no reports > of the kind of general instability you're talking about. and all the > via-users I've heard of have no such stability problems - > me included (kt133/duron). > > the only general issue is that kx133 systems seem to be difficult > to configure for stability. ugly things like tweaking Vio. > there's no implication that has anything to do with Linux, though. When I reported my problem a couple weeks back another fellow said he and several others on the list had the same problem, and as far as I can tell it is *only* with the IWILL boards. When I compiled with k7 optimizations I'd get all kinds of oopses and panics and never fully boot. They were different every time. When any of the lesser optimizations are used I have no problems. My memory is one 256MB Corsair PC150 dimm, CPU is a Thunderbird 850, and mobo is an IWILL KK266 (KT133A). The CPU runs between 35°C and 40°C. >> My memory system jas been set up very conservitavely and has been >>rock solid in my other board (ka7), so I doubt it's that, but I >>sure am happy to try a few more cominations of bios settings. Anything >>I should look for in particular? >> > > how many dimms do you have? interleave settings? Vio jumper? > already checked on cooling issues? and that you're not overclocking...