From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 19 21:34:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx04.cluster0.hsacorp.net [209.225.8.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E5137B405 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:34:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [24.158.214.244] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.6) with ESMTP id 10116976; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:40:34 -0500 Received: (from glenn@localhost) by gforce.johnson.home (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBK5YCB00512; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:34:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from glenn) From: Glenn Johnson Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:34:12 -0600 To: Rick Bischoff Cc: stable-digest Subject: Re: S2460 problems Message-ID: <20011220053412.GA429@gforce.johnson.home> References: <1781377234.20011219092142@rickjr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1781377234.20011219092142@rickjr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:21:42AM -0500, Rick Bischoff wrote: > Hello all, > > Ok, yesterday, I announced my problem-- here is a recap. > > I have a S2460 Tyan Tiger motherboard, with dual AMD 1700 XP+ > processors, 512 MB ecc RAM, a 40 GB western digital ata 100 and > a 30 GB western digital ata 100. The video card is an el-cheapo > GeForce2 MX and the sound card is a sound blaster live! 5.1. > The network card is an Intel EtherPro something or other. > > This system in its entirity works perfectly under Windows. Both > CPUs are functioning properly it seems. > > However, when I installed FreeBSD onto either drive, the entire > system hard locks at random times. What is a hard lock? Well, > I can't type anything in, I can't telnet or ssh in and I sure as > heck can't figure out why it crashed. I have the same problems > using SuSE 7.3 Linux. > > I tried changing the MP spec in the BIOS from 1.4 to 1.1 > compatibility, but it still hard locked. I was able to compile > a 4.4 Stable kernel and boot into that, but soon after it hard > locked just the same. > > One fellow suggested flashing the BIOS. Another suggested > replacing the power supply-- my question is: Why does it work > perfect under Windows if its a hardware problem? If anyone has > had any kind of success with this motherboard I would like to > know. I got 4 systems with these boards a couple of months ago. I have not had any problems at all. Each system has 2 1200MHz Athlon MP processors with 256MB of DDR memory, a 40GB IBM ATA/100 7200RPM drive , a Matrox G450 video card, and a 3Com 3c905 Ethernet card. None of them have sound cards. I can get more specific details when I get back to work on Friday if you need them. One question: You stated that you were using "dual AMD 1700 XP+ processors". Did you mean to say MP processors? -- Glenn Johnson glennpj@charter.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message