On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jack Morgan wrote: yojack >I have an Abit BP6 board with two celron 400mhz and I want to do SMP and yojack >possible overclocking. I am planning to do a clean install of GNU Debian 2.1 yojack >(slink) Advice, links and comments, please : -) yojack >
I would STRONGLY suggest AGAINST the BP6 if you are making a machine to do work that requires uptime, if its just a home machine and you dont mind random lockups then BP6 is fine. Overclocking a dual processor machine is also dangerous, especially on the BP6 as it adds more stress to an already overstressed board. It can be done, i suggest if you go with the BP6 install it as quickly as possible and do VERY intense burnin tests (i suggest using the 2.2.10 kernel to start, move to 2.2.14 lateron if you like). If you.. have 64MB of ram = run 6 copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on different VTs (or in screens) have 128MB of ram = run 10 copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on different VTs use lm_sensors to monitor CPU temp, i also suggest against using the stock intel fans go with FDP32s (or is it FEP32 i forget which) also put heatsink grease and a fan on the i440BX chip on the board and deck the machine out with high speed fans. for the test i also suggest not using the DMA66 controller if you are IDE (my BP6 is full scsi) after the test go ahead and use it. The intel fans made my BP6 with 466Mhz cpus go to 50C, now my CPUs with FDP(or FEP?)32 fans are ~27-33C. Although i havent run [EMAIL PROTECTED] in a few months. Let the machine run for 3 days, if it is still going (and processing the seti data) then the machine can be declared "a hell of a lot more stable then mine" :) my machine would lockup in ~20 minutes. i discovered this well after my warranty expired, i spent over a month troubleshooting my machine, some people have good boards, i suppose i could go buy a new BP6 and run more tests on it and return if needed, but i have little hope that i would find a good one. bottom line though is, run very intensive I/O and CPU tests on it for an extended period before deciding that the board is good. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:15am up 146 days, 19:16, 1 user, load average: 0.49, 0.40, 0.39
