Yes, I have the 1.82 BIOS and that doesn't help. I am also experiencing the same problem as you describe, the lockups ONLY occur in the SMP Linux version. That made me think that it was "only" a matter of getting the kernel to work on the board and thus I tried the 2.5.73 kernel, compiled for SMP. It didn't help. Still the same hangs. It is also difficult to help the developers since I have not yet seen an "oops" or any sort of error message. The logs don't record anything and there is nothing on the console. I have tried with and without X, since someone pointed ot it could be a AMD/AGP problem, but no success. The same hangs. /Björn On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > Have you tried MSI's K7D's new version 1.82 BIOS?? > > http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_detail.php?UID=73&NAM > E=MS-6501 > > I'm personally not going to bother. But you may have better luck. I know > that the 1.5 version BIOS still had the same issues. And since I tried for > almost 3 months, trying to get it to work with Linux, without it having to > hard lock the system all the time, and at random intervals. I'm happy with > the Tyan board. And I'm going to stick to it, now that everything is working > as it should have with the K7D. I don't know WHY, but the hangs and lockups > only appear to happen with the SMP version (Build) of Linux. The single CPU > version seemed to work ok, but that defeats the purpose of having two CPU's > if you can't use them. > > Cheers, > > Wolf >
