Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:34:12 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net> To: Rick Bischoff <bischoff@rickjr.org> Cc: stable-digest <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: S2460 problems Message-ID: <20011220053412.GA429@gforce.johnson.home> In-Reply-To: <1781377234.20011219092142@rickjr.org> References: <bulk.24307.20011218144513@hub.freebsd.org> <1781377234.20011219092142@rickjr.org>
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:21:42AM -0500, Rick Bischoff wrote: > Hello all, > > Ok, yesterday, I announced my problem-- here is a recap. > > I have a S2460 Tyan Tiger motherboard, with dual AMD 1700 XP+ > processors, 512 MB ecc RAM, a 40 GB western digital ata 100 and > a 30 GB western digital ata 100. The video card is an el-cheapo > GeForce2 MX and the sound card is a sound blaster live! 5.1. > The network card is an Intel EtherPro something or other. > > This system in its entirity works perfectly under Windows. Both > CPUs are functioning properly it seems. > > However, when I installed FreeBSD onto either drive, the entire > system hard locks at random times. What is a hard lock? Well, > I can't type anything in, I can't telnet or ssh in and I sure as > heck can't figure out why it crashed. I have the same problems > using SuSE 7.3 Linux. > > I tried changing the MP spec in the BIOS from 1.4 to 1.1 > compatibility, but it still hard locked. I was able to compile > a 4.4 Stable kernel and boot into that, but soon after it hard > locked just the same. > > One fellow suggested flashing the BIOS. Another suggested > replacing the power supply-- my question is: Why does it work > perfect under Windows if its a hardware problem? If anyone has > had any kind of success with this motherboard I would like to > know. I got 4 systems with these boards a couple of months ago. I have not had any problems at all. Each system has 2 1200MHz Athlon MP processors with 256MB of DDR memory, a 40GB IBM ATA/100 7200RPM drive , a Matrox G450 video card, and a 3Com 3c905 Ethernet card. None of them have sound cards. I can get more specific details when I get back to work on Friday if you need them. One question: You stated that you were using "dual AMD 1700 XP+ processors". Did you mean to say MP processors? -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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