From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 7: 3:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7059E15247 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 07:03:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from PARANOR (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA18465; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:10:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.20000104100255.0153e6e0@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 10:02:55 -0500 To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, nimrodm@email.com From: Tom Embt Subject: Re: Abit's BP6 board lockups Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's not sensitive for me. As an earlier post of mine mentioned, I'm running dual 366's OC-> 540MHz at 2.2V on a 235W PS. Tom Embt At 09:55 01/03/2000 +0100, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > > >Hello, > >Well, the BP6 is very sensitive to external conditions : be sure to have a good power supply, check that your RAM is very well seated, and you'll get nevertheless strange lockups. > >It seems that Abit went cheap and did not do a good job with regulating current on the board (not enough capacitors near the CPUs) > >Nevertheless, it's a fine board (but I'll get a 300W PSU as soon as possible) > > TfH [snip] > >I'm running a dual celeron (400MHz) Abit BP6 board. Note that the system >is *not* overclocked and I don't (currently) have any drive connected to >the HPT366 ATA/66 controller. > >I'm test driving FreeBSD for a few weeks now to determine if I should >switch over from Linux (I'm looking for better SMP performance). > >Anyway, I've had a few random lockups (rather rare, but..) and would >like to know if any other BP6 owners are experiencing the same problem? > >By the way, Linux seems to have random lockups as well (with this board) >and a special mailing list have been set up to determine if it's a >hardware problem or a kernel bug. Now I'm more convinced it is a >hardware problem.. > >-- Nimrod. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message