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, 4 Sep 2001 18:18:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:18:04 -0400 Received: from amsfep13-int.chello.nl ([213.46.243.23]:63061 "EHLO amsfep13-int.chello.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:17:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3B955234.2040204@chello.nl> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 00:14:12 +0200 From: Gerbrand van der Zouw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Chase CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Status of the VIA KT133a and 2.4.x debacle? In-Reply-To: <999493106.15509.33.camel@homebase.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patrick Chase wrote: > Are you enabling or disabling bank interleaving with the new BIOS? As it turned out, the oopses are not correlated with the bank interleaving. I can turn the feature on and off and system stability remains the same (which is good enough to write this mail under X and compile a kernel). The other features that this BIOS upgrade (Award v. 2.9) includes are (from the MSI site): -Add Bank Interleave item in the BIOS Chipset setup -Adjust Vcore Voltage Sensitivity on Hardware Monitor -Show CPU L1 and L2 cache size -Don't Display Ghz for AMD K7 CPU -Fixed that WD WD400BB-00AUA1 HDD fail in FDISK with nVidia Geforce2 AGP Card In fact I do have a nVidia Geforce2 card. Another hypothesis is that the last fix, also fixes the oopses. Tomorrow I will flash the BIOS back to 2.7 and see if I get the system back to the previous, unstable state. Regards, Gerbrand van der Zouw