Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:55:56 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: nimrodm@email.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abit's BP6 board lockups Message-ID: <C125685B.00311210.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr>
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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
Nimrod Mesika <nimrodme@bezeqint.net> on 31/12/99 12:51:13
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Subject: Abit's BP6 board lockups
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.
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