Dear All, For a while I had thought that upgrading either to the 2.4.22-193 or 2.6.x family was making my system prone to crashing unexpectedly when copying/moving large files. It is based on a KT8 Neo Mobo with 3200+ Athlon x64 and 1GB (2x512) of unregistered 400Mhz DDR Ram with Infineon Chips (which shows up as 333Mhz when the bios boots). My first though was to regress to the 109 kernel but the problems persisted and the system was going over left, right and centre. Belatedly suspecting a HW problem I have changed the IDE cables, removed and reseated the CPU (+ new themal paste) and removed an reseated the RAM (in slots 1 &2 and 1 &3) . This improved things but it was only when I uped the CPU, RAM and AGP voltages in the bios that things improved markedly - though it still crashes under heavy load?. Any other SUSE experience of such problems that may shed light? Help desperately wanted! Gareth Rees
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gareth: I had stability problems for a long time too - it all turned out to be RAM. If you haven't already, I suggest you run memtest86 overnight and see what the results are. Good luck, - Darrell On Tuesday 03 February 2004 10:48, gareths.rees wrote:
Dear All,
For a while I had thought that upgrading either to the 2.4.22-193 or 2.6.x family was making my system prone to crashing unexpectedly when copying/moving large files. It is based on a KT8 Neo Mobo with 3200+ Athlon x64 and 1GB (2x512) of unregistered 400Mhz DDR Ram with Infineon Chips (which shows up as 333Mhz when the bios boots). My first though was to regress to the 109 kernel but the problems persisted and the system was going over left, right and centre. Belatedly suspecting a HW problem I have changed the IDE cables, removed and reseated the CPU (+ new themal paste) and removed an reseated the RAM (in slots 1 &2 and 1 &3) . This improved things but it was only when I uped the CPU, RAM and AGP voltages in the bios that things improved markedly - though it still crashes under heavy load?. Any other SUSE experience of such problems that may shed light?
Help desperately wanted!
Gareth Rees
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Hi Gareth:
I had stability problems for a long time too - it all turned out to be RAM. If you haven't already, I suggest you run memtest86 overnight and see what the results are.
Good luck, - Darrell
Thanks for the help, it seems that the memory is not stable in slots 1 &2 on the motherboard its seems ok in slots 1 and 3 after some thrashing with memtest. However, I still need 2.5-2-2-6 timing and 2.7 V on the DRAM and 1.55V on the CPU for SUSE to be rock solid. Anyone any idea if these will cook the CPU? Best regards Gareth Rees
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