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Re: AMD vs. Intel



also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> [2004.04.08.0108 +0200]:
> No.  It is a machine totally dead, CPU won't even NMI, soundboard
> will keep looping whatever is in its buffer kind of bug.  Probably
> a northbridge issue.

What's NMI?

> Try to make sure you don't have external PCI cards sharing IRQs
> with the internal devices, and see if that improve things.

If only I'd know how to assign IRQs. Ever since they don't give us
jumpers for that anymore, I have been a software junky and my
knowledge about hardware has decreased logarithmically.

> Enable the LAPIC NMI watchdog, and see if that causes better (or
> worse behaviour). Try it with the IOAPIC NMI watchdog as well.

Do I have to patch that into 2.6.5?

> But really, before you do *anything*, get memtest86+ and do
> a 24-hour burn-in test in the "extended" mode.

Okay.

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