> Arg! I'm never going to buy AMD again....and I hate having to say that > 'cause I love rooting for the under dog - part of the reason why I love > Linux so much - but geezus fucking kriest is my system ever unstable! I > have a dual Athlon mobo and under every o.s. I've tried (Linux (2.2 and > 2.4 series kernels) FreeBSD (4.x) and Windows (2K and XP) I get crashes. > I've updated the damned bios, I've looked every where and come to the > conclusion that I'm not the only one. Its my damned chipset apparently. > Windows is more or less fine unless I try to run some SMP enabled > software or games - then it locks up. FreeBSD is fine unless I run a > kernel compiled for SMP - then it locks up after a few minutes, else it > runs dandy for hours. Linux....my favorite o.s. cannot be my main o.s. > on this hardware. Its just not stable - I've looked and added the > mem=nopentium tag and I cannot start X-Windows. So then I remove it and > try the noapic tag and it makes no difference. Perhaps I'm adding the > tag wrong? I dunno - but my next motherboard will be dual-Xeons. More > expensive? Sure, but hopefully more reliable too. > > I know a fellow who works at the Oklahoma University weather forecasting > center where they use two Linux clusters. The older one (maybe a year) > is all dual athlon like mine - he says they regret the purchase, all the > machines have to be reboot periodically to insure stability. The new > cluster is all dual Xeons - been going months now without any downtime. > Both run Red Hat Linux :-) I dislike Intel, their often worse behaving > then Microsoft....but I cannot live like this. I spend a large chunk of > my day in front of a box for work or news or play and this is driving me > nuts. I hate having to sit in Windows much of the time but until I > replace my computer I'm stuck. > > So I guess this email is part rant/part question - if anyone has a > simular motherboard (760MP chipset from Tyan, not the newer 760MPX) and > has a solution by all means let me know. I'll love you forever. > Thankfully I've landed a great new job at Lockheed Martin and with the > increase in pay over my old position I can stand to buy a new box. My > first home-built computer was dual Celerons and I've since become hooked > on SMP, I'll never build/buy a UP box again unless its a laptop or a > collectors comp like my Sun workstation. Having an always responsive > box is a nice luxury. Even with something large processing in the > background I always have an idle CPU. Coupled with more then one SCSI > hard disk and I'm set. Am I the only one who spends his spending money > on his computer but drives an old clunker car? So I'm a geek... > > Thnx for reading this is anyone ever does - it is long. > ~Christopher
A like-minded geek :) I've been leaning towards intel as of late. the new exons are really sweet! I really like the no-licencing -per-porcessor of linux. i haven't tried AMD for serious enviroments yet....guess I shouldn't, given your experience. I hope you find your solution. -- Jesse Jacobs, Supa' Noob :) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
