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, 19 Sep 2001 15:53:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:53:25 -0400 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.9.112.194]:44176 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:53:15 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA8F7BB.273734EA@candelatech.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:53:31 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Bruce Harada , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Locked up 2.4.10-pre11 on Tyan 815t motherboard. In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > > Doubtful. Since it's an 815, I presume you're running a PIII (correct me if > > I'm wrong) - newish PIIIs have reasonable overheating cutout features, and > > if overheating had damaged the CPU, I'd be very surprised if it worked at > > all, rather than just locking up on certain sizes of network packets. > > The 815 chipsets have known (and documented) problems with out of spec > memory signals. Board vendors are supposed to have used workarounds but I > have so far sent back 2 out of the 3 A/Open i815 boards with problems where > they locked up occasionally under high load (in any OS) and also failed > memtest86 (with known good tested ram) when placed in an electrically noisy > environment. > > I've seen lockups on high network load as part of that - but not packet size > dependant ones. Damn..someone has to make good stable motherboards...anyone got any suggestions for one that will fit into a 1U server, with built-in Video and preferably a NIC? I had ok luck with an Intel board based on the 815 chipset, so long as I used the e100 driver...maybe I'll have to go back to it... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear