Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found?

[Bob <recbo@nishanet.com>]

Craig Bradney wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 01:21, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
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>>Craig Bradney wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 00:49, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>*maybe* I found the bugger, at least I got APIC more stable (need to 
>>>>test whether oit is really stable, compiling kernel right now...):
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>>>>It is a problem with CPU disconnect function. I tried various parameters 
>>>>in bios and turned cpu disconnect off, and tada, I could do several 
>>>>subsequent hdparms and machine is running! As CPU disconnect is a ACPI 
>>>>state, if I am not mistkaen, I think there is something broken in ACPI 
>>>>right now or in APIC and cpu disconnect triggers the bug.
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>>>>Maybe now my windows environment is stable, as well. It was much more 
>>>>stable with cpu disconnect and apic, nevertheless seldomly locked up.
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>>>>So gals and guys, try disabling cpu disconnect in bios and see whether 
>>>>aopic now runs stable.
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>>>>I have an Abit NF7-S Rev2.0 with Bios 2.0.
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>>>>Prakash
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>>>I rebooted and checked in my BIOS, I dont seem to have "CPU Disconnect"?
>>>Is there another name. I also downloaded the motherboard manual for your
>>>NF7-S and cant find it there either?
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>>th efull name should be "CPU Disconnect Function". it is an the page 
>>with "enhanced pci performance", "enable system bios caching" ".. video 
>>bios caching" and all the spread spectrums. I have forgotten the name of 
>>that page in the main menu. Should the 3 or 4 in the first column.
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>>Perhaps your BIOS is too old. I remember it only came with 1.8 (or 
>>alike) and later. But usually this setting should be disabled at default.
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>>My machine still hasn't locked, btw. :-)
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>Sounds great.. maybe you have come across something. Yes, the CPU
>Disconnect function arrived in your BIOS in revision of 2003/03/27
>"6.Adds"CPU Disconnect Function" to adjust C1 disconnects. The Chipset
>does not support C2 disconnect; thus, disable C2 function."
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>For me though.. Im on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe v2 BIOS 1007. From what I can
>see the CPU Disconnect isnt even in the Uber BIOS 1007 for this ASUS
>that has been discussed.
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>Craig
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I don't have that in MSI K7N2 MCP2-T near the
agp and fsb spread spectrum items or anywhere
else.