Re: Kernel lockups on dual-Athlon board -- help wanted

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001, Eric S. Raymond <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Alan Cox <[e-mail]>:
> > Try a completely different board and components. There are folks
> > running rock solid 2.4 on dual Athlons. I speculate yours is perhaps
> > marginal somewhere.
> 
> OK...
> 
> 1. By "different board" do you mean different instance of the same design, or
> different design?  Because the K7 Thunder is, AFAIK, the only dual-Athlon
> 1200 board that exists right now.  

I suspect he means same design, different physical hardware.

> 2. Do you know of anyone else successfully running 2.4 over an AMD 760
> support chipset?

I am.

I have had some cooling problems with some of the hardware in the past.

> 3. Which components do you think are likely to be implicated?  Bad memory
> is an obvious guess, I suppose.

Cooling most likely. What kind of system is this? Rackmount? Desktop
case?

JE