Re: Athlon/MSI mobo combo broken?

[Mike Frisch]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:35:07PM -0700, Manuel A. McLure wrote:
> Let me add my voice to the crowd. I have the same MSI K7T Turbo with an
> Athlon TBird 900MHz and 256M of PC133 SDRAM, and kernel 2.4.6 runs
> rock-stable on it. However, 2.4.7 hangs hard after a day or so of uptime -
> no response to pings, can't switch from X to a virtual console, etc. Sysrq-B
> will reboot, but other Sysrq-keys (like Sysrq-S or Sysrq-U) don't seem to
> work. Unfortunately I am invariably in X when this happens so I don't get to
> see ant OOPS text, and there is no OOPS information in the system log after
> the reboot.

I do not know if this is related since it seems to be VIA-based boards
being mentioned here, but I am also experiencing hard lockups on
Athlon-optimized 2.4.7 (and 2.4.7-ac?).  My board is an ASUS A7A266 (ALi
MaGik chipset), Micro PC2100 DDR RAM, and an Athlon T-Bird 1.2GHz.