On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:17:08PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
There are current known issues with nForce2/AMD combo. It
has to do with a race condition during the C1 disconnect.
The solution is to disable APIC, either in the kernel config
or by passing apic=off (or noapic, I can't remember) on the
kernel command line. Ever since finding out that little gem
(and swithcing to 2.6 kernel) my machine has been rock solid
stable. I can throw anything at it, and not a single lock up.
Just to throw some weight behind this, this solution has worked for me
on several Athlon / nForce servers I've built. I just removed APIC from
the kernel completely.