I run an abit bp6 with 2 400C's and have upgraded the bios to the latest
and have never expirenced any of the problems that you all seem to be
expirenceing. It contains a Fujitsu UDMA66 7200 10.2gig drive a Riva TNT2
32meg AGP video card 128megs PC100 Ram and Redhat 6.0 on 24/7 and never
have any problems. I am a great supporter of Abit. Don't know what I am
doing right? Just thought I would add my 2cents.
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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>
> >
> > I have an Abit BP6 Motherboard with dual Celerons. I have been running
> > Red Hat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.13 (with SMP) for some time with little
> > difficulty. Abit recently released a BIOS update to fix some things. I
> > flashed my board with the latest update, only to find that my SMP kernels
> > no longer will boot. Uniprocessor kernels will boot fine, but SMP will
> > not work. The SMP kernel will boot until right after detecting the IDE
> > hard disks and cd-rom, and then the machine will reboot instantly. Does
> > anyone know why this would happen with a BIOS update? Perhaps a broken
> > BIOS? Perhaps a snafu in the kernel that is being tickled by a difference
> > in BIOSes ?
>
> This is a known issue, and I suspect that we'll have to blame Abit. The
> BP6 is a pain in the ass for a lot of people, and the hardware design
> seems buggy.
>
> There is a thread on the kernel mailinglist on this issue.
>
>
> >
> > thanks,
> > -Randy
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Igmar Palsenberg
>
>
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