Re: Mainboard with Serverworks HE Chipset

[Tim Wright]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:33:09AM +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> 
> 
> 
> I got a "Tyan Thunder HE-SL"-Mainboard today, which has a "Severworks
> ServerSet III HE"-Chipset. (2xPIII 933, 2x512MB PC133 ECC-Registered
> SDRAM)
> 
> And i have one problem and one question.
> 
> First the question. I have an uptime of phenomenal 29minutes and "cat
> /proc/interrupts" tells me this
> 
> NMI:     175819     175819
> LOC:     175829     175828
> 
> Should i be worried? Or can i ignore it. With my former Mainboard NMI was
> (AFAIR) always 0.
> 
> Now my problem.
> 
> The Graphic-Card is a Geforce 2, Xfree is 4.02 (compiled under 2.2.17).
> 
> When i start X, everything is fine. When i go back to text-console and
> wait "some time" and then switch back to X the computer locks solid and i
> have to press the Big-Red Button. (Switching back to X after a "short"
> periode of time, at the text-console, works "normaly")
> 
> If anyone needs more information, i will happily provide them.
> 

You could try booting with 'nmi_watchdog=0' and see what happens.
What you describe sounds like the problem I have seen on a few boxes, and
disabling the NMI watchdog makes the huge numbers of NMIs and the system
hang go away. Still unclear why this is happening.

Tim

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