On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:42:54 -0800
Kris Ongbongan
Could this be with the Tyan 2880? we've had the same problems. I've spoken with Tyan about it, even went to their office with our server, and they claim it's an error in the CPU, that they can reproduce the problem on a B-stepping CPU, but the problem was corrected by the C-stepping CPU (we're using the 246).
Maybe that's refering to Errata #86. See the AMD Opteron Specification Update .pdf on the AMD website. The BIOS can fix that though and probably does.
Then I spoke with my uncle, who came to visit from Taiwan, where he is one the guys at Phoenix BIOS, who writes the BIOS for Tyan(and almost everyone else). He says that it's a design flaw in the Mobo, and that
Judging from all the reports we get on this mailing list about Tyan problems this would not surprise me at all. People hardly ever report memory problems with other motherboards, just with a few Tyan mobos. -Andi