RE: PROBLEM: Random (hard) lockups

Dan Hollis (goemon@anime.net)
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:31:49 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Manuel A. McLure wrote:
> I am seeing something very similar on my K7T Turbo/Athlon 900/256M PC133
> SDRAM (note to Dan, the K7T Turbo is an SDRAM mobo, not DDR)

Hmm. I have an MSI pro2-A which works fine with K7 optimizations...
tbird900, 256mb sdram...

May very well be a hardware design flaw. The pro2-a appears very carefully
engineered to keep most traces short and they went through a lot of effort
to keep traces the same length.

The only stability problems I've had were overloading the 300W PS with a
geforce2, all 6 PCI slots filled, 3 HD, 1 CDRW, and one DVDrom. Removing
one of the drives (CDRW or DVDrom) lowers the power consumption back into
the realm of 100% stability.

Next on my shopping list is a 450W PS :-)

Has anyone tried swapping buffered/unbuffered DIMMs to see if it made a
difference?

-Dan

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