On Tuesday 24 June 2003 05:57, Bjorn Lund wrote: > Hi! > > I have a dual Athlon MP 2400+ machine, M7D Master-L motherboard, 2GB of > memory, 2x WD Caviar 120 GB drives and two good Zalman heat sinks/fans. > I can however not get Linux to run properly in SMP mode. In UP (one > processor) the machine works fine but in SMP it frezzes after a while, > faster if i run larger applications on it. I'm talking 5 to 30 minutes > before it hangs. > > I have tried all RH9 kernels, the latest RawHide kernel, the 2.4.21 kernel > and 2.5.73. All work in UP but hang in SMP. I have run memtest86 3.0 for > 61 hours without errors (only got through test 7 though), I have tried > kernel options apm=off, noapic, mem=nopentium in different kombinations > but no luck. I have the lates Award BIOS for my mobo and have tried with > MPS 1.1 and 1.4, I have turned ACPI off in the BIOS, I have tried with a > different video card, all to no avail. > > Does anybody have any suggestion for what to do next (return the > mobo...?), or does anyone have the same setup as I and run it > successfully? I have had this issue up for discussion at 2cpu.com > > http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38520 > > with a lot of good advice but ufortunately not been able to solve the > problem. > > Cheers, > Björn You've probably already done this but; Swap places with your CPU's and see if the behaviour changes. Joebewan
