[ale] k7s5a mb drama continues
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Mon Oct 28 11:41:02 EST 2002
Dow Hurst wrote:
> 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:
I hope her health returns very quickly.
>
> 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.
Yeah, I just checked again and I've got this in my log:
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=302 quiet devfs=mount
idebus=66 mem=nopentium
I'm rebuilding the kernel right now to see if something changes.
> 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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Until later: Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
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