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From: Clock <clock@twibright.com>
To: kenton.groombridge@us.army.mil
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nforce2 lockups
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:15:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030815171521.A683@beton.cybernet.src> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df962fdf9006.df9006df962f@us.army.mil>; from kenton.groombridge@us.army.mil on Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:12:17PM +0900

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:12:17PM +0900, kenton.groombridge@us.army.mil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found your post looking for a solution to my lockups.  I bet if you do a dmesg, you will find that your nforce2 chipset revision is 162.

Yeah! Look:

NFORCE2: chipset revision 162

:)

> 
> I have found tons of people with this exact problem.  My Abit board will run
> Windows 2000 flawlessly, but lockup in a minute under Linux.

> 
> Currently I have a reward of $20 posted on two lists looking for a solution.  Currently looking to up the ante to $40.
> 
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16264
> 
> http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27003
> 
> I don't think the problem is the the IDE.  I have used a promise controller
> and disabled the onboard IDE and still had lockups.  If you find a solution,
> please let me know.  If I find one, I will do likewise.

It looks like the problem is in APIC. When you disable it, it vanishes.
And, when you enable NMI watchdog, which is handled by APIC,
it doesn't work - it couts up to 15 in /proc/interrupts and then stops!

Cl<

       reply	other threads:[~2003-08-15 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <df962fdf9006.df9006df962f@us.army.mil>
2003-08-15 15:15 ` Clock [this message]
2003-08-15 16:38   ` nforce2 lockups Alistair J Strachan
2003-08-15 19:06     ` Clock
2003-08-15 17:47       ` Alistair J Strachan
2003-08-15 21:15         ` Clock
2003-08-17 19:27     ` Jussi Laako
2003-08-17 20:02       ` Patrick Dreker
2003-08-18 13:28   ` Pavel Machek
     [not found] <fa.ih2vscq.35m1rs@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.gbe06ic.1ki851c@ifi.uio.no>
2003-08-17 13:00   ` walt
     [not found] <20030817233306.CC67A2D0074@beton.cybernet.src>
2003-08-17 23:41 ` Karel Kulhavý
2003-08-18  8:04 kenton.groombridge
2003-08-18  9:31 ` Ookhoi
2003-08-18 11:00 ` Karel Kulhavý
2003-08-21  1:39 kenton.groombridge
2003-08-21 11:05 ` Patrick Dreker
2003-08-23  1:41 kenton.groombridge
2003-08-23 12:20 Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-23 12:48 ` Patrick Dreker
2003-08-23 15:50 Mikael Pettersson
2003-08-23 18:52 ` Patrick Dreker

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