From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 3 0:56:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3612514D09 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 00:56:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs10.alcatel.fr (mailhub2.alcatel.fr [155.132.188.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA10086; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:49:45 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs10.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id JAA28379; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:52:17 +0100 (MET) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id C125685B.003116D4 ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:56:11 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL To: nimrodm@email.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:55:56 +0100 Subject: Re: Abit's BP6 board lockups Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Well, the BP6 is very sensitive to external conditions : be sure to have a good power supply, check that your RAM is very well seated, and you'll get nevertheless strange lockups. It seems that Abit went cheap and did not do a good job with regulating current on the board (not enough capacitors near the CPUs) Nevertheless, it's a fine board (but I'll get a 300W PSU as soon as possible) TfH Nimrod Mesika on 31/12/99 12:51:13 Please respond to nimrodm@email.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: (bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL) Subject: Abit's BP6 board lockups I'm running a dual celeron (400MHz) Abit BP6 board. Note that the system is *not* overclocked and I don't (currently) have any drive connected to the HPT366 ATA/66 controller. I'm test driving FreeBSD for a few weeks now to determine if I should switch over from Linux (I'm looking for better SMP performance). Anyway, I've had a few random lockups (rather rare, but..) and would like to know if any other BP6 owners are experiencing the same problem? By the way, Linux seems to have random lockups as well (with this board) and a special mailing list have been set up to determine if it's a hardware problem or a kernel bug. Now I'm more convinced it is a hardware problem.. -- Nimrod. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message