[ale] k7s5a mb drama continues

[Geoffrey]

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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