Have you tried getting better fans for your CPUs. On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Christopher Henderson wrote:
> 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 add ing 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 -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
