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To: Ken Witherow <ken@krwtech.com>
Cc: Philip Wyett <philipwyett@dsl.pipex.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Tyan 2460/Dual Athlon MP hangs
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 01 Jul 2002 02:40:16 -0600
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Ken Witherow <ken@krwtech.com>, <MISSING_MAILBOX_TERMINATOR@.SYNTAX-ERROR> writes:

> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Philip Wyett wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > This issue has all the hallmarks of PSU problems. I had the same issue running
> 
> > dual Athlon MP's with a GeForce 4 Ti4600 until I switched the 400W PSU that
> > came with the case too an Enermax 550W beast. The basic Tyan approved PSU for
> > the 2460 is a M2463 (460W) unit when talking to my main vendor specifically
> > because of all the problems with lockups and failures to even POST (Power On
> > Self Test) etc.
> 
> I have seen it fail to properly post after rebooting and I figured it
> might be the ACPI problem I've seen people have before. I'll upgrade the
> PSU and see if that doesn't take care of the problem. Thanks to everyone
> for the advice :)

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
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