Hi Alex, Alex Angerhofer wrote:
Hi Stefan,
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Stefan Suurmeijer wrote:
Hi List,
Last week I bought an Asus A8V motherboard with an AMD64 3000+ and installed SuSE 64 bit on it. So far, not to my satisfaction however.
I have the same system as you with an AMD64 2200+ on it.
This week, I've had more hanging systems than the previous 5 years. I've been consistenly able to reproduce a system hang by doing the following:
- Installed SuSE 9.2 64 bit - Start an ssh session to an external machine - Start an ssh session from the external machine back to your own machine - Generate some actions, for example a few directory listings
My system runs decently. The only times I had freezes and hang-ups where when I had: - Two hard drives connected to the two SATA connectors at the same time. Everytime the second hard drive was to be accessed the system hung. I ended up putting the second drive on the RAID disabling it in the BIOS.
Ah, I have two SATA drives (and one PATA), had them connected to the VIA SATA first, moved them to the Promise SATA instead (to rule out problems with the VIA). So you have on SATA drive on the promise and one on the VIA controller?
- The overclocking set up on AUTO in the BIOS. Putting the frequency right on what it was supposed to be helped a lot. - My Kingston RAM developed a memory hole at the 993 MB point. Found that with memtest86. After RAM replacement things were much improved.
ok, I have overclocking on AI. Figured that that would use the default settings. I'll change them to the correct settings manually. What kind of Kingston RAM do you use? PC 3200 or faster?
Every time, the machine completely freezes. My machine uses SuSE linux with out of the box openssh, the remote machine uses commercial ssh (I didn't have any openssh machines to test if the same problem occurs).
I doubt that openssh makes your machine freeze. It is probably a hardware issue. I sometimes observe that ssh is slow after starting a program that has to tunnel X through the wire. But that shouldn't be the issue in your case.
I also don't know if ssh is the only thing that makes the machine freeze, but it's the only thing I've been able to consistently reproduce. So I looked at network issues mainly
After looking on the net at first I figured it was an issue with the onboard LAN adapter, so I disabled it and added a second Intel E100 pro.
My onboard LAN works fine.
Ok. I found a few references on the internet about people that had experienced lock-ups as well, and mentioned their being something wrong with the kernel module for the Marvell Gbit NIC
No difference, still locks up. By now, I've disabled pretty much everything I could think of that might cause the problem (onboard sound, onboard lan, onboard 1394, onboard via SATA chipset, powersaved, etc) The only "strange" things I've noticed on the install were that php-swf fails to install with an error (but I didn't really need that, so I just deselected it) and that irqbalance is started by default but fails, so I disabled that too.
Well, I have to admit that the hardware problems I listed above may not be all possible points of failure. My system sometimes still gets hick-ups. There may be other issues with this board that I haven't been able to find. For example, sometimes it failes to boot up and has to be powercycled. Occasionally, I fail to get all my start-up daemons loaded. I don't trust ASUS anymore. I have Pentium ASUS boards and they have issues, too. OTOH, my system is pretty crowded with peripherals and that may have to do with some of these issues as well.
I had the issue you mention as well: this is actually my second A8V board: the first didn't boot twice either. And twice it did boot, but suddenly didn't detect the devices connected to the IDE controller. So I figured that the motherboard was defective, and exchanged it. Haven't had those issues anymore since. I always had good experiences with ASUS boards, this is the first time I've had this much trouble... I'll try the overclocking settings and moving one SATA disk back to the VIA. By now I'll try pretty much anything :/ thanks, Stefan