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

[John Heil]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 13:22:09 -0400
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <[e-mail]>
> To: John Heil <[e-mail]>
> Cc: Johannes Erdfelt <[e-mail]>,
>     Alan Cox <[e-mail]>,
>     Linux Kernel List <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: Kernel lockups on dual-Athlon board -- help wanted
> 
> John Heil <[e-mail]>:
> > You might try a heat sink & fan on the north bridge chip.
> > Also your cpu fans ought to be of the 7+K RPM variety.
> 
> Interesting.  We're going to put Silverados on the CPUs as soon as we
> can get them -- if you don't know what those are, they're a super-well-
> designed cooler that can chill a chip by 24 degrees centigrade.  Low-noise,
> too, they only emit 37dBA.
> 
> Where is the north bridge chip on the board?  I have the mobo diagram from the
> Tyan site but it doesn't show that.

It's the AMD-762 system controller, the one with the metallic cap on top.

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