Hmm, this sounds reasonable. I am currently using the 0.01b beta BIOS, which is quite old. I am however a tad leery to flash again, since last time I did it my root mount point was deleted with disasterous consequences. Has anybody updates to the 2885 v1.02 bios for the K8W? Does it solve the memory hole problem from pre 0.01b? More importantly, did it delete your mount points?

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> To: "Eugene de Villiers" <edevilliers@hotmail.com> CC: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Mystery crashes Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:15:44 +0100

"Eugene de Villiers" <edevilliers@hotmail.com> writes:

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My dual opteron 242 K8W thunder with 4Gb of DDR400 Reg ECC has been running Suse 9.0 for a couple of weeks now. Everything seems to be working fine and memtest showed no problems.

Unfortunately, every few days or so (it has happened 3 times now), the system just freezes up, and I mean completely. No logins, no escapes, no keyboard or mouse response at all. It still responds to pings though, which is strange since no other remote operations are successful.

There are no messages in the logs (at least the ones I've checked), so I assume its probably hardware related. Any advice/checks I can try?

Just the obvious thing: Do you run the latest BIOS?

Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 << attach3 >>

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