On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:20:54AM -0600, Christopher Henderson wrote:
> Arg!  I'm never going to buy AMD again....
>  SNIP  ( it was long .... )

Synopsis:
Chris has a Dual SMP AMD system on a Tyan MB that is unstable and crashes
periodically.

Chris - the motherboard you reported using has been praised as being very
stable at : http://www.hardwareguys.com/picks/motherboards.html
(FWIW)

They recommend making sure that you use high quality memory and a high
quality power supply to assure stability.   What are you using for 
RAMand PS ?  Any possible problems in these areas ?   

As an experiment have you tried backing down the clock speed of the system
about 10 or tenty percent to see if it stabilizes ?  If it does then its
likely you have a marginal component somewhere on the system.
(But which one... )

Did you run MEMTEST86 to make sure none of your RAM has any subtle 
defects ?  MEMTEST is a free RAM diagnostic that is incredibly 
thorough, and it runs standalone from a floppy.  Anyone who ever plays with
hardware shaould have it, see google to find a place to download it.


Also - please post in plain text, 72 chars wrapped.
See http://expita.com/nomime.html  for how to configure Outlook Express
to send only text email as is the practice in this email list.


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