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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:16:13 -0000
From:      "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk>
To:        "'Rick Bischoff'" <bischoff@rickjr.org>
Cc:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Re[2]: Lockups
Message-ID:  <004d01c187e7$b1ea6c10$c80aa8c0@lfarr>
In-Reply-To: <762805203.20011218120633@rickjr.org>

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I think there are some issues with lockups that were fixed by a 
BIOS update. Or it might have been the other Tyan dual athlon board.

Worth a look anyway!

Lawrence Farr
EPC Direct Limited 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Bischoff
> Sent: 18 December 2001 17:07
> To: Lawrence Farr
> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re[2]: Lockups
> 
> 
> Hello Lawrence,
> 
>       I haven't tried that yet since I am still looking for a 95/98
>       boot disk.  And, my mistake, it's actually a S2460 Tiger MP
>       board.
> 
> Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 11:52:43 AM, you wrote:
> 
> LF> Have you flashed the latest bios?
> 
> LF> Lawrence Farr
> LF> EPC Direct Limited 
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 
> >> 
> [mailto:ostable@FreeBSD.ORGwner-freebsd-> stable@FreeBSD.ORG] 
> On Behalf Of Rick Bischoff
> >> Sent: 18 
> December 2001 16:28
> >> To: stable-digest
> >> Subject: Lockups
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Hello all,
> >> 
> >>   I am running a dual AMD Tyan S2462 Thunder K7 motherboard with
> >>    dual AMD 1700 XP+ (the 1.4 GHz version) with 512 MB ECC RAM, and
> >>    two western digital 40GB and 30GB hard drives.
> >> 
> >>  Anyways, I can install FreeBSD (4.3 Release) just fine.
> >>  I can cvsup the entire source tree.  I can't compile squat.
> >> 
> >>  What happens.. Get's half hour into compiling world, or 
> half way into
> >>  building a new kernel and the entire system hard locks.  
> Same thing
> >>  happens with SuSE Linux 7.3.  System works fine in Windows 2K.
> >> 
> >>  This is with a minimal install, so I am not using my graphics or
> >>  sound system at all! Any ideas? I'm beginning to think 
> its the BIOS
> >>  MP setting (it's at the 1.4 MP spec)-- would changing it to 1.1
> >>  Compatibility mode help??
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Rick                            mailto:bischoff@rickjr.org
> 
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