Re: PA-2013, K6-2 and AGP TNT2: Windoze runs, but Linux crashes
Hi, Noah!
Thanks for your comment. I went to the closet and took old VGA card
out. Unfortunately it did not help. Swapping cables, moving cards
around does not help either. I can reproduce the problem if I try to
move 1Gb of data from one place into another. Windoze does it, but
Linux gets stuck somewhere in the beginning.
Strange thing that I found a couple of messages blaming PA-2013, and
people switch to Tyan, and it seemed to help, despite the fact that
both motherboards carry exactly the same VIA chipset.
It smells like bad motherboard.
Thanks again,
Sasha.
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> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
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> > MB : FIC PA-2013 (revision 2.0)
> > CPU : K6-2-450 with huge fan on top of it.
> > HD : IBM 15 Gb
> > CD : CD-DVD Toshiba
> > Sound : SB live (value)
> > Video : AGP Diamond V770 TNT2
> > Modem : Actiontech PCI
> > Linux : Debian Slink installation
>
> I've got many of these same components...PA2013 board, K6-II 450. The
> notable difference is the video board (mine is a 3dfx voodoo3). All this
> hardware is supported fine by Linux, with only possible exceptions being
> the modem (PCI modems are usually not compatible) and the video board (I'm
> just saying that as a disclaimer, since I don't know anything at all about
> it.)
>
> I am inclined to believe that you are in fact facing some kind of hardware
> problem that windows is able to ignore for some reason. Nothing on your
> hardware list should be crashing Linux if it's working properly. I would
> try swapping some stuff out with different, similar hardware. Try
> different HD cables, a different disk, a different video board. It might
> even be the motherboard.
>
> You might also want to try running your hard drive on your secondary IDE
> controller, and disabling the primary controller in the BIOS. It could be
> that one of the controllers is bad but the other is OK.
>
> I had to RMA my PA2013 after experiencing some strange crashes in
> Linux. Disk IO would stop working completely. If i left procmeter
> running, I could try to run a program and watch the system load increment
> by one with each new process I tried to start. The only way out of this
> state was to reboot. I still don't know what caused it, but replacing the
> motherboard fixed the problem...
>
> Hope this helps you.
>
> noah
>
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