On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:49, Mario Ohnewald wrote:
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 20:21, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Mario Ohnewald wrote:
Hello List,
i have a K7S8X ASROCK motherboard, 256MB ram and an AMD Duron 1.6Ghz. When i try to install suse9.2 from a FTP-DVD, i get this error on tty4 and it freezes: kernel: Losing some ticks...checking if CPU frequency changed.
Mario, For your info, and don't know if this could be the problem. I used to get the exact same message on my boot message. Further on down I would get a "many lost ticks" message. Found it trying to troubleshoot wildly varying time settings. Turned out to be the motherboard. Was brand new. Complained to the manufacturer and they replaced it (different brand of mobo than yours) No problems since then. Hope that's not your problem. Just so you know. Bob S.
I have already tried apci=off and SafeSettings. Then i loaded the default Bios settings, and took out my PCI modem, disabled onboard Audio and Lan. Memtest ran 12h and its ok. Has anyone ideas how i could solve this?! FTP or NFS install freezes with the same error.
Whenever someone has a weird error that doesn't seem to have a cause, I always suggest trying a new power supply. If the voltage at the clock generator has fallen too low, as with any solid state device, its performance will become erratic, and lost ticks is the first thing I would expect to see.
stillt he same error, with a diffrent power supply. It always freezes when it has done 99% or 100% or formating the partitions.
Any further ideas?
Thanks, Mario