Random Reboots

rgoodkin · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:40 pm Post subject: Random Reboots

Been having some weird issues with my Biostar K8NHA Pro and Gentoo, well any OS for that matter. Initially I was having issues that would cause the machine to just start slowing down to crawl for no apparent reason. Screen writes, registering key presses would take a couple of seconds. Now Using a normal IDE drive (not my serial ATA one), the machine seems to randomly reboot during compilation for no apparent reason. I have apic disabled, gonna run a memory test tonight.. Any ideas what could cause this? I think I've got a faulty board or chip..

Thanks,
Bob Goodkin

robnotts · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject:

I have exactly the same motherboard, Biostar K8NHA Pro, and have successfully installed Gentoo Linux for AMD64...

Full specs... Biostar K8NHA Pro NForce 3, 2x512Mb Ram, 2x120Gb Maxtor ATA133 Hard Drives, 1xSony CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo, 1xGeforce FX5700...

Apart from the problem I have detailed elsewhere with GhostScript I have managed to get fully installed... there is a solution to my GhostScript problem in the other post...

I am now basically working my way through the available software to see what I can and can't do...

Even managed to get java working on mozilla... the link to the plugin that was defined by either mozilla or blackdown was actually incorrect.

Rob.
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Gentoo Turion64 X2 Geforce 6150 2GB/120GB (Laptop)

jsc1959 · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:13 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a memory problem. If your memtest shows errors you can try manually setting your ram settings. Let us know how it goes.
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rgoodkin · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject:

Do you have to disable APIC in the bios for proper functioning?

THanks,
bob

robnotts · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:17 pm Post subject:

I decided against disabling ANYTHING in the bios, other than the onboard sound features... as I have put in my Audigy card... So ACPI/APIC are running... I did update to the latest bios, and everything seems to be ok... the fans go up and down depending on what you are doing which is kind of nice...

Wading my way through the dmesg output though, it does appear that the bios doesn't correctly set the power saving states... but the powernow-k8 module seems to correct this... as cpudyn ups and downs the cpu frequency as required...

One thing... I am using a genkernel kernel... to which I used the --menuconfig option to enable parallel printing... why is that disabled?

Rob.
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Gentoo Phenom][ X4 955 on AMD790 + Geforce 220GT 8GB/1.75TB (Desktop)
+ MythTV (3xFreeview,1xFreesat HD) on 1080p
Gentoo Turion64 X2 Geforce 6150 2GB/120GB (Laptop)