Dual athlon XP 1800 problems

8. Rebooted again, now it's up and running and appears stable (still 1 CPU), so I took it up to full init 5 and it stayed up (and so I'm writing this email :-) Once or twice seemed to stall again for 1-2 seconds (interrupt storm ???) but recovered.

Anyone have suggestions? I'm thinking to leave it running and see if it stays up. Smells of a hardware issue, but also the BIOS seems a bit funny (there is a message in the Help which says "this setting for debug only - remove for production" !!)

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8. Rebooted again, now it's up and running and appears stable (still 1 CPU), so I took it up to full init 5 and it stayed up (and so I'm writing this email :-) Once or twice seemed to stall again for 1-2 seconds (interrupt storm ???) but recovered.

Anyone have suggestions? I'm thinking to leave it running and see if it stays up. Smells of a hardware issue, but also the BIOS seems a bit funny (there is a message in the Help which says "this setting for debug only - remove for production" !!)

I've noticed some oddities on 2.4.19 with a dual Athlon Tyan S2462 that look like stalls under heavy load. If you're really curious, you might try 2.4.18, as this was not a problem there. (I'm running SuSE kernels shipped with SuSE 8.0 and 8.1, although I saw similar trouble with a stock 2.4.19 build and stopped using it. The stalls are only minor though, so I haven't investigated. Maybe they are worse on that motherboard.)