Re: [2.4] Nforce2 oops and occasional hang (tried the lockups patch, no difference)

[Craig Bradney <cbradney@zip.com.au>]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 18:24, Disconnect wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:52, Disconnect wrote:
> > memory/cpu timings.  (Even underclocked it to 133 and 1G with no
> > change.)  So its unfortunately back on a stock 2.4.23-pre9 with
> > noapic/noacpi. (It disables one of the sets of usb ports, as I recall,
> > but it mostly works...)
> 
> Update: Underclocked from 1.8G to 1.2G (whups, meant to go down only
> 2-300mhz) and its been vaguely stable for about 1.5 days.  I don't have
> another week (yet..) to run it under its normal load and wait for a
> crash, so what I'm going to do is:
>  - Move the workload (web/mail/..) to a different machine so this one
> can be down for an extended period
>  - Replace the ram with new sticks (they arrived this morning)
>  - Reclock everything to stock (1.83G cpu, 200mhz ram and verify the
> timings from kingston)
>  - Replace the video card
>  - Memtest86 until it cries
>  - If it passes, bonnie++ on the new drives
>  - If that passes, usb/acpi/apic testing with the associated patches
> 
> Anyone still watching this?  Tips and suggestions on what else might be
> useful/informative are more than welcome.  The tests above mostly
> replicate what I did when building this box, and it passed them then..
> 
> Recap:
>  Epox 8rda+ nforce2 mobo
>  AMD Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) 1.83G
>  Kingston HyperX PC3200
>  WD Caviar WD1200JB 8M/UDMA100
>  Antec case w/ 350W AMD-certified PSU
> 
> Oopses and occasional hangs, usually in do_generic_file_read, using
> stock kernel.org 2.4.2x kernels.  Hardware passed testing (memtest86,
> bonnie++) before I put Linux on it.

Does this not relate directly to the APIC/IOAPIC issues with 2.6 kernel
and nforce chipset motherboards? 

Craig