[ale] k7s5a mb drama continues

[Dow Hurst]

Geoffrey,
Sorry I haven't gotten back to you.  My wife had to go into the hospital 
so we had a busy week.  She is fine, just dealing with what we hope is 
infectious and not ulcerative colitis.  Anyway, to more pleasant subjects:

My Athlon XP1800 runs at 1.5 GHz and I have the Zalman CPU fan, a Zalman 
case fan, and an Enermax dual fan powersupply.  The CPU runs at 52 C and 
the case temp is 28 C.  These are reasonable values according to other 
sites and docs I've read while worrying about this stuff.  Are you 
telling the kernel via Grub or LILO that you don't have a pentium?  I've 
had lock ups on both mine and my wife's computer when leaving off the 
mem=nopentium option for LILO.
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:

> The shop I got this mb from is working with me on this.  He swapped 
> out the processor and loaned me another mb.  Didn't have another 1700, 
> so he gave me an 1800 no charge.  Same board, earlier revision.  
> Anyway, I rebuilt the system with the alternative mb and I'm getting 
> the same issues.  Still sees the 128mb stick of memory as 256, 
> regardless of what slot I put it in or whether it's by itself or with 
> another stick.  I let the new motherboard warm up and it's running the 
> same temperatures.
>
> I did note that I had 4x agp turned on in the bios, but configured X 
> as 2, so I've changed that to see if that makes any difference.
>
> I'm back to the original mb since it's a newer revision.  I ran 
> tuxracer last night and part way through the second round it locked up 
> on me again.
>
> I am currently building a new kernel since I was using a stock kernel 
> from mdk and figure that maybe a kernel configured for this processor 
> might do better.
>
> cpu temp reached 54C but no problems with my current kernel compile.  
> I really don't think I've got heat issues.  I've dropped email to ecs 
> to inquire as to what the max/mins are on this thing.  I do now know 
> that the heat sensor for the cpu sits under the chip, right in the 
> middle of the socket.  If the processor max temp is 80-90C, I can't 
> see that there'd be a 30-40C difference between the processor and the 
> sensor, but feel free to slap me back to reality.
>

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