Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 20:36:34 -0800 From: Seth Leigh <seth@pengar.com> To: Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Abit BP6 failures Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001119203634.00c689f8@hobbiton.shire.net> In-Reply-To: <200011192209.eAJM9Vq01712@spooky.eis.net.au> References: <3.0.6.32.20001119100352.00c41248@hobbiton.shire.net>
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Yeah, in fact I think it may have something to do with the chipset, since it didn't do it when it was new, but it sometimes does it now. I have been overclocking this machine since day 1, and I have noticed a bit of a degradation in its ability to be overclocked. For a long time I ran the Celeron 400s at 552 MHz, but now it isn't stable at 552, and I have to run it at 480 MHz, where it is rock solid. Why won't it run at 552 anymore? I believe it is actual degradation of either one or both of the CPUs, or else the chipset. I am going to pull the motherboard out, remove the heatsink from the BX chip on the motherboard, and put some heatsink compound underneath it, and mount a fan onto the heatsink. I will then try going back up to 552 MHz. The motherboard is a year and a half old as it is, so I don't really care if I risk frying it, since if I fry it I will just replace it with an 850 MHz or 900 MHz Athlon. If I don't fry it I will hold onto it for another 6 or 8 months and replace it with a dual Athlon, which I assume will be shipping by then. Seth At 08:09 AM 11/20/2000 +1000, you wrote: >> Actually yes, I have had this problem with my BP6. It isn't running >> FreeBSD though, this machine is running just Win2K and Solaris 2.8. >> >> What will happen is that sometimes, after shutting it down, is that when I >> go to reboot it it will just do *nothing* after I power it on, no display >> on the screen or anything. When that happens (which isn't all the time) I >> will just cycle the switch on the back of the case (the switch that >> directly turns off the power supply), and then cycle it back on and hit the >> On button on the front panel of my machine again. When this problem occurs >> it usually takes between 1 and 4 such cyclings to get it to boot up. >> >> I thought I was the only one with this problem. Oh well. >> >> The nice thing is that I hardly ever shut this machine down. It runs >> either Win2K or Solaris 24/7, so the problem isn't too annoying. Also, it >> doesn't always fail to boot up when I have shut it down, perhaps it does it >> a third of the time. >> >> Other than that, I have had zero problems with my BP6 under those two OSes. >> I love it, it is a year and a half old and has been running 2 Celeron 400s >> at either 552 MHz or 480 MHz ever since I built it. >> >> Oh yeah, I water cooled the CPUs. :-) >> >> (www.2coolcomputer.com is where I got the water blocks to do this) >> >> Seth Leigh >> > >Oh well it's good to see I am not the only one with the problem, looks like >a design fault in the BP6, I noticed that the problem almost goes away if >you only have a single CPU fitted. I wonder if that means the BX chip has >cooked itself over time. > >- Ernie. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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