From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264903AbTLEXt4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:49:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264905AbTLEXt4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:49:56 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:7826 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264903AbTLEXty (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 18:49:54 -0500 X-Authenticated: #4512188 Message-ID: <3FD1199E.2030402@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 00:49:50 +0100 From: "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031116 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Allen Martin CC: "'Jesse Allen'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog - found? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, *maybe* I found the bugger, at least I got APIC more stable (need to test whether oit is really stable, compiling kernel right now...): 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. Maybe now my windows environment is stable, as well. It was much more stable with cpu disconnect and apic, nevertheless seldomly locked up. So gals and guys, try disabling cpu disconnect in bios and see whether aopic now runs stable. I have an Abit NF7-S Rev2.0 with Bios 2.0. Prakash