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Subject: Reliable hardware
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scott thomason wrote:

>On Tuesday 10 December 2002 03:00 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
>  
>
>>Random lockups on dual athlons are a notorious problem under all
>>OS's. Start by checking it passes memtest86, that will verify the
>>RAM is ok - and the AMD is -very- picky about RAM.
>>
>>If thats ok then let me know which board you have, what is plugged
>>into it and what PSU you are using.
>>    
>>
>
>I have two AMD MP 2000+ cpus in an ASUS A7M266-D. Even after returning 
>my memory for new chips the store owner memtest86'd, my combo of cpus 
>and mobo was finding the occasional error. I finally ended up 
>resolving it by simply underclocking the bus about 6Mhz :( 
>
>Next time, I'm buying ECC memory.
>---scott
>  
>
Is there a good site for pointers towards assembling reliable Linux 
machines?  It seems to me the trickiest part of the whole operation is 
choosing good hardware in the first place.  I just started a new job and 
inherited a buch of new but flakey machines, and I'd like to avoid doing 
that in the future.


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