Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:04:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:04:10 -0400 Received: from nick.dcs.qmul.ac.uk ([138.37.88.61]:32922 "EHLO nick") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:04:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:12:43 +0100 (BST) From: Matt Bernstein To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: GA-7DX+ crashes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Auth-User: mb X-uvscan-result: clean (17ewwU-00075d-00) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4445 Lines: 119 Hi, We're very much at a loss as to why the 60 new PCs we've bought largely don't run Linux (various 2.4 kernels including 2.4.19, limbo1-BOOT) for very long without crashing. One of them seems to work OK; its /proc/pci is identical, but the batch number on the southbridge seems one lower--is this dodgy VIA hardware again? We'll be trying a different IDE controller next, but 60 of those ain't cheap.. Has anyone else had success or failure stories in particular with this motherboard? We don't really have a significant number of data points just yet, but are willing to try pretty much anything anyone might suggest! Matt symptoms - random data corruption (sometimes memory, more often HDD) - somtimes oopsing, but never in the same place what we think we've ascertained so far - they pass memtest86 - we've tried different HDDs, no effect - tried ide=nodma, possibly makes it crash after longer - tried noapic, no effect - tried all sorts of BIOS settings, no effect (except--possibly--turning off the on board IDE controller and playing nfsroot games) - ..and yet they seem to run that other OS fine :-( - extra cooling/underclocking doesn't seem to help - seems to be fs-independent (tried ext3, reiserfs, jfs) hardware - GA-7DX+ motherboard - AMD 761 northbridge - VIA 686B southbridge - Athlon 2000XP - 256MB DDR RAM /proc/pci and /proc/cpuinfo: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 20). Master Capable. Latency=32. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xebffffff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee006000 [0xee006fff]. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd003]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge (rev 0). Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=14. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 64). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd40f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 26). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2) (rev 26). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc1f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 64). IRQ 9. Bus 0, device 7, function 5: Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80). IRQ 5. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff]. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe403]. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe803]. Bus 0, device 13, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C (rev 16). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0xec00 [0xecff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee004000 [0xee0040ff]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Controller (rev 0). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=15.Max Lat=15. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee005000 [0xee0057ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xee000000 [0xee003fff]. Bus 1, device 5, function 0: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX) (rev 178). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec000000 [0xecffffff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe7ffffff]. processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 6 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1675.283 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 3342.33 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/