Re: Random CPU initialization on Athlon SMP

2003-09-14 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello, > > When googling for this I find references that at least for Pentium's the > > stepping of cpu's in dual processor boards must be identical in most > > cases. Guess that might be your problem indeed. > > Athlons are different from Pentiums: you can mix up every stepping, the only > requ

Re: Random CPU initialization on Athlon SMP

2003-09-13 Thread NiteOwl
On Saturday 13 September 2003 15:24, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Have you tried swapping the cpu's? Not sure if the 2 cpu's should be > > identical. See the MB docs for that. No, I haven't tried it... But I don't think this could be a problem, except in case of some weird bug somewhere (B

Re: Random CPU initialization on Athlon SMP

2003-09-13 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
> Hello niteowl, > Have you tried swapping the cpu's? Not sure if the 2 cpu's should be > identical. See the MB docs for that. When googling for this I find references that at least for Pentium's the stepping of cpu's in dual processor boards must be identical in most cases. Guess that might

Re: Random CPU initialization on Athlon SMP

2003-09-13 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello niteowl, > I have a very strange problem on my dual Athlon MP system since CPU > initialization seems to be performed in a random way. In about 50% of > bootstraps the kernel manages to correctly enable the second CPU, in the > other 50% not. I have no idea what causes this, but I am qui

Random CPU initialization on Athlon SMP

2003-09-13 Thread niteowl
Hello all. I have a very strange problem on my dual Athlon MP system since CPU initialization seems to be performed in a random way. In about 50% of bootstraps the kernel manages to correctly enable the second CPU, in the other 50% not. In the former case the system is rock solid, in the latter