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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Ken Witherow <ken@krwtech.com>
Cc: Philip Wyett <philipwyett@dsl.pipex.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tyan 2460/Dual Athlon MP hangs
Date: 01 Jul 2002 02:40:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ofdrrgcv.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206302352320.340-100000@death>

Ken Witherow <ken@krwtech.com>, <MISSING_MAILBOX_TERMINATOR@.SYNTAX-ERROR> writes:

> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Philip Wyett wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > This issue has all the hallmarks of PSU problems. I had the same issue running
> 
> > dual Athlon MP's with a GeForce 4 Ti4600 until I switched the 400W PSU that
> > came with the case too an Enermax 550W beast. The basic Tyan approved PSU for
> > the 2460 is a M2463 (460W) unit when talking to my main vendor specifically
> > because of all the problems with lockups and failures to even POST (Power On
> > Self Test) etc.
> 
> I have seen it fail to properly post after rebooting and I figured it
> might be the ACPI problem I've seen people have before. I'll upgrade the
> PSU and see if that doesn't take care of the problem. Thanks to everyone
> for the advice :)

My memory says the 2460 doesn't supply enough voltage/power to both
cpus, so getting it to run stable is a challenge.

I have seen some systems where burn k7 would lock them in under a minute,
due to this.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-01  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-30 18:55 Tyan 2460/Dual Athlon MP hangs Ken Witherow
2002-06-30 19:20 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-06-30 19:33   ` Ken Witherow, MISSING_MAILBOX_TERMINATOR
2002-06-30 22:09     ` Stephen Lee
2002-06-30 23:13       ` Philip Wyett
2002-07-01  3:53         ` Ken Witherow, MISSING_MAILBOX_TERMINATOR
2002-07-01  8:40           ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2002-07-01 13:34             ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2002-07-01 16:46               ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-01 13:36 ` venom
2002-07-01 16:11 ` Christopher Swingley

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