Re: Tyan 2460/Dual Athlon MP hangs

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
01 Jul 2002 10:46:01 -0600


Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@fprintf.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 04:40, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Ken Witherow <ken@krwtech.com>, <MISSING_MAILBOX_TERMINATOR@.SYNTAX-ERROR>
> writes:
>
> >
> > My memory says the 2460 doesn't supply enough voltage/power to both
> > cpus, so getting it to run stable is a challenge.
> >
> > I have seen some systems where burn k7 would lock them in under a minute,
> > due to this.
> >
> > Eric
>
> I have a 2460 that runs rock solid. I does not warm reboot, but then it
> doesn't reboot from Windows either. I've heard that a bios upgrade
> fixes the warm reboot issue. I loaded it pretty hard for days at a
> time, and never a hitch, except for the warm boot problems. Are you
> sure the ones you've had problems with had MPs and not XPs in them?

100% though they were high end MP's that require more power.

Eric
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