Re: Oops on linux 2.4.20-ac1

scott thomason (scott@thomasons.org)
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:00:54 -0600

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 03:00 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> Random lockups on dual athlons are a notorious problem under all
> OS's. Start by checking it passes memtest86, that will verify the
> RAM is ok - and the AMD is -very- picky about RAM.
>
> If thats ok then let me know which board you have, what is plugged
> into it and what PSU you are using.

I have two AMD MP 2000+ cpus in an ASUS A7M266-D. Even after returning
my memory for new chips the store owner memtest86'd, my combo of cpus
and mobo was finding the occasional error. I finally ended up
resolving it by simply underclocking the bus about 6Mhz :(

Next time, I'm buying ECC memory.
---scott
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