AMD thunderbird oops
Well considering the other night the power supply went dead, I think that is part of the problem. It is brand new, and I am being sent another one (free of course).
I also had my mb loaded at the time (scsi cd-rw, cdrom, internal zip, floppy, 1 hd, Sound card, video, modem, NIC, scsi card) but my last tyan was fine with that load it may be a kt7a thing.
Several people said that random (keyword here) oopses are more often a hardware thing. I wonder if the kt7a is going to be able to perform fully loaded..
is anyone running one fully loaded? 4 ide drives, 2 floppy, (5 pci and 1 isa) or 6pci, agp, 512MEG+ RAM?
Joe
Quoted 5 lines · Dave Jones
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
My current speculation is that the sdram setup on some of these boards can't actually take the full CPU spec caused by these hand tuned routines. There is some evidence to support that as several other boards only work with Athlon optimisation if you set the BIOS options to 'conservative' not 'optimised'
Interesting, and plausable theory. It would be more interesting to see register dumps of the memory timing registers on both good and bad systems, to see if this is the case.
Unfortunatly afair the register level specs of all the affected chipsets are not available.
regards,
Dave.
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Quoted 1 line · On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 [email protected] wrote:
Well considering the other night the power supply went dead, I think that is part of the problem. It is brand new, and I am being sent another one (free of course).
I would have bet that power supply was erogating elettricity with a discontinous intensity.
I saw that RAM stability is the first think to be affected (together with L2 cache stability) in those cases.
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I also had my mb loaded at the time (scsi cd-rw, cdrom, internal zip, floppy, 1 hd, Sound card, video, modem, NIC, scsi card) but my last tyan was fine with that load it may be a kt7a thing.
Several people said that random (keyword here) oopses are more often a hardware thing. I wonder if the kt7a is going to be able to perform fully loaded..
is anyone running one fully loaded? 4 ide drives, 2 floppy, (5 pci and 1 isa) or 6pci, agp, 512MEG+ RAM?
yes,
1.300 Mhz
1 agp
4 pci
1 isa (I love my sound blaster 16 on ISA, could not live without) 3 disks
1 floppy
1 zip
1 dvd
5 fans
350 watt power supply.
Luigi
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Joe
Quoted 5 lines · Dave Jones
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
My current speculation is that the sdram setup on some of these boards can't actually take the full CPU spec caused by these hand tuned routines. There is some evidence to support that as several other boards only work with Athlon optimisation if you set the BIOS options to 'conservative' not 'optimised'Interesting, and plausable theory. It would be more interesting to see register dumps of the memory timing registers on both good and bad systems, to see if this is the case.
Unfortunatly afair the register level specs of all the affected chipsets are not available.
regards,
Dave.
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Quoted 10 lines · [email protected] wrote:
Well considering the other night the power supply went dead, I think that is part of the problem. It is brand new, and I am being sent another one (free of course).
I also had my mb loaded at the time (scsi cd-rw, cdrom, internal zip, floppy, 1 hd, Sound card, video, modem, NIC, scsi card) but my last tyan was fine with that load it may be a kt7a thing.
Several people said that random (keyword here) oopses are more often a hardware thing. I wonder if the kt7a is going to be able to perform fully loaded..
is anyone running one fully loaded? 4 ide drives, 2 floppy, (5 pci and 1 isa) or 6pci, agp, 512MEG+ RAM?
Joe
Similar board (KA7) had non-heat related lockups with 133MHz FSB (1756 BogoM). 100MHz FSB + 4 way interleave has been fast and stable (1690 BogoM).
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.00 seconds =128.00 MB/sec
Abit KA7 (VT82C686a, rev 22), Athlon 850, 2x256MB PC133@CL2, 2 ide, CR-RW, Colorado Travan, linux 2.2.20p6+ide.2.2.19.04092001, SPI 300W power, PCI: Firewire, Netgear FA310TX, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz audio,
AGP: 32MB TNT2.
CONFIG_M686=yCONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=yCONFIG_X86_INVLPG=yCONFIG_X86_BSWAP=yCONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=yCONFIG_X86_TSC=yCONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=yCONFIG_1GB=yCONFIG_MTRR=y
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