a7n8x lockup

shira · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 122

I've had my kernel set to Athlon/Duron/K7 since I did the install but I still get random hard lockups from time to time

I've got the exception check, MTRR and APIC checked in that section

do you think taking out APIC would help

I have the 1005 bios on a 2.0 board

taskara · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 9:31 pm Post subject:

oh definately remove acpi at this stage, but hmmm... lockups are generally hardware faults..

have u tested your memory, how hot if your cpu getting? and how strong is your power supply?
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shira · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 122

I've had APCI off the whole time it's APIC that I took out (from the processor menu not the power management option)
the hardware should be good, the crashes happen at random times most of which have been at times of low load
the mem is fine too
the system runs fine under 2k when I switch over to play various games

I've compiled APIC out and haven't had a crash *yet*, it's been up for ~30 mins so I'll see how it goes

taskara · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:10 pm Post subject:

just in case you want it, here is my 2.4.21-ac1 config file, u can compare it to your if you like

JL · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 26

thanks taskara. the config seems to work fine so far. just having issues with my nvidia video card when unsing the nvidia driver. X displays weird characters now and locks. Its ok with the nv driver. so more troubleshooting. But the hard locks seem to have disappeared with the ac-1 series .
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taskara · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 6:11 am Post subject:

no worries mate

I had the same problem with the weird characters.. I think it was caused by ACPI... have you got it DISabled ?
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JL · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 26

will doublecheck when i get home.

thanks again.
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JL · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 26

yep.. ACPI is DIS abled.
also tried disabling AGP 8x mode too. still no help. the troubleshooting continues.....

Taskara... which version of the nvidia drivers are you using. I am thinking about downgrading one version.
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taskara · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 11:27 am Post subject:

[ebuild R ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4349-r2

hmm... try this version.. if it still doesn't work... something's wrong.

I thought it was acpi that stuffed it up for me.. but maybe I was wrong

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taskara · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 11:43 am Post subject:

oh yeah, btw... I can't seem to get X to start properly if I try and use agpgart (which SHOULD be the nforce2 driver that I compiled into my kernel)

kdm starts, but freezes the machine.

so I'm using nvagpgart atm

if anyone gets the nvidia agp driver working, I'd be very interested

I added

jbuberel · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 31 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

It was all kernel configuration. I made all of these changes in one kernel build, so I don't yet know exactly which change made the difference:

DooBeDooBeDo · Apprentice Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 220 Location: UK

Both Local APIC and ACPI cause mine to lock - I don't have any problems with either Highmem or pre-emption.

I've left them compiled in but use the command line to disable them ("acpi=off noapic nolapic")

I have the kernel agpgart as a module along with the nforce2 driver and it runs really well on 2.6-test9-mm5

Specs:
ASUS A7N8X - Deluxe GD
Athlon XP 2800+
NVidia GE Force 4 Ti4800 SE
1GB mem
80GB WD HD 8MB cache
Lite-on CDRW
No-name DVDR

Kalin · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 11:17 pm Post subject:

APIC is the culprit, it is very instable with SATA driver it seems. I was getting a lock wvery several hours (at random) before I disabled it.

And it was written something like "it doesn't hurt to turn it on" in the kernel config. Not for nForce MBs!

Have a A7N8X Deluxe (BIOS 1007) with S-ATA WD360GD (10k rpm, 36GB) working stable for the last 15+6+4 days (rebooted to add a DVD+RW etc) with 2.4.22 vanilla, no ACPI.

Now trying to get 2.4.23 with ACPI on.