Date: 28 May 2002 02:03:40 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems with PC-Partner motherboards? Message-ID: <1022576621.1708.14.camel@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <1022574851.38850.59.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> References: <1022574851.38850.59.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 01:34, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Does anyone have a PC Partner K133AASA-220B ? > No, but my DFI AK74-EC board (which is a VIA KT133A motherboard) with an AMD Duron 1300 has been locking up like clockwork right around midnight. I thought this was amanda related (I've just finished installing a dedicated dump disk), but I stayed up tonight to watch things and it actually locks up without amanda doing anything (just running Evolution and looking at my mail while waiting for amanda to start on schedule and the mouse cursor froze--along with the rest of the system). After rebooting, amanda ran fine to completion. Amanda appears to work the system pretty hard as the CPU spikes up about 20 deg. C (from 65 deg. C to 85 deg. C--still within the operating limits of 90 deg. C from the documentation--but a tad toasty). After amanda completed (takes about 2 hours on my system to back up a 60 Gig set of partitions), the CPU temperature settles down again. As you've observed, the freeze is "hard"--getting in with a debugger appears futile and I need to hit the reset switch to get things moving again--CTRL-ALT-DEL has no effect. I'm also wondering if this has anything to do with the tagged queing going south early in 4.5-STABLE (the tagged sysctl is currently disabled in my loader.conf with a comment). No real reason to think so, just a generalized feeling that all is not quite right. > If so, do they have either the latest BIOS update, or a version of > FreeBSD with the VIA Southbridge fix? > > If yes, then do you notice it lock up? :) > > I have had several of these and they lock up hard (can't break in via > the debugger) after working hard (running as a radar system, md5'ing > files, and buildworlding repeatedly) > > If I use the older BIOS and a version of FreeBSD without the southbridge > fix it doesn't appear to hang... Unfortunately the older BIOS doesn't > support Athlon XP CPUs, and without the fix I get data corruption. > > Anyone have any input? > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 -- _ | |V| / ' || MacroHard -- \ \_| | | \_, || the perfection of form over | ----------------------------------|| substance, marketing over | Web: http://www.borgsdemons.com || performance, and greed over | AIM: johnmcooper || design . . . | =====================================================================/ Public Key: http://www.borgsdemons.com/Personal/pgpkey.asc | =====================================================================\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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