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Venatyr
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 Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 11:25 pm Post subject: [Solved] Nforce Lockups |
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For the newest kernels in which the c1halt fix exists in the vanilla kernel, I kept getting lockups.
I fixed it by applying this patch here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=3049&action=view
Here's the actual post:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203#c37
| Quote: | Finally... I found the problem with my nForce2 system... the patch that is in
2.6.6 is not generic enough to work on all systems. Specifically the C1halt
sets the config dword to either 0x9f01ff01 or 0x1f01ff01 assuming that it was
either 0x9f0fff01 or 0x1f0fff01 to begin with... however in my case it was
actually 0x8f0fff01 to start and changing it to 0x9f0fff01 still caused hard
locks on my system! I made a patch against 2.6.6 that fixes the issue on my
system and should be generic enough to work on all systems.
Flipping that 0xF nibble to 0x1 seems more correct to me, not to mention that
my system doesn't hang any longer (IO-APIC, APIC, ACPI, PREEMPT, Kernel 2.6.6). |
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poormanscomputer
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BTW, the link seems to incorrect. (Or they are having problems...)
I'm geting this as well. Hopefully it will become standard now. I thought having the C1 patch was enough. Although, I'm not sure if that refers to the chipset revision or not. Because I have an early nforce2 board with a revision A1 chipset. Maybe this is why it's causing this?
poorman
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One more thing, I've got APIC turned off...Should I try turning it back on? |
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Venatyr
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:16 am Post subject: |
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I've edited my original post with the correct patch link.
Sorry about that.
The patch is for 2.6.6 so modify accordingly for more recent versions. |
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poormanscomputer
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| Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:58 am Post subject: |
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Well, I actually made a post on another forum (arstechnica) regarding my troubles.
Feel free to check it out here:
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=96509133&m=407006664631&showpollresults=Y
Anyways, I applied the patch and I still recieved lockups...so I'm not sure what else is going on.
Check out the post (under the same handle) for more info. I've seemed to get a stable system only by adding some boot options: i.e. nosmp noapic nolapic idle=C1halt and disabling APIC in the bios... I did however get some badness errors on startup tonight, which caused my wireless card not get a dhcp signal, and Xorg to crash...
There are too many variables...but I wanted to let everyone know of my issue...
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Admiral LSD
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/me thanks god he didn't buy the A7N8X Deluxe
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Admiral LSD
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Funny thing is, I own an nForce2 board myself (EPoX 8RDA+) and haven't had even a fraction of the amount of trouble others have been happening. Sure, I had to disable APIC at one point for stability but that was a year ago with kernel 2.4.20, 2.4.22 (not sure about 2.4.21 as I skipped it and went straight to 2.4.22 after getting frustrated at how long it was taking for updated xfs-sources to appear) and beyond have all been perfect.
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Apreche
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| I have an nforce2 board also (NF7-S) and I recently had trouble with the gentoo-dev.sources 2.6.5-r1 locking up for no reason. I'm fairly certain this is my problem because I enabled APIC and APIC-IO. I never enabled them before because I didn't know if I should. During this rebuild I looked up on google what they were and enabled them. Then the lockups started happening. I see many different patches in this thread, but I'm not too great with patching things. I can't even figure out which ones I need now... Maybe I should just disable APIC until a fixed kernel is emergeable? |
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