[NCLUG] machine cuts power

[Daniel Miles]

Alright, I tried that, we'll see how it works
Thanks :)

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 12:05, mbutcher at aleph-null.tv wrote:
> There was some speculation around 2.4.17 or 2.4.18 that there was a
> problem with the kernel &| Athlon processor. The result of the problem,
> IIRC, was random kernel panics. The solution was to compile the kernel
> _without_ Athlon optimizations.
> I've been trying to find the original post I saw, which was somewhere on
> gentoo.org, but I haven't been able to locate it yet. (This is different
> than the CPU/AGP bug)
> Matt
> 
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > Not an answer to your ?, but I had an Athlon 1.2 that did exactly the
> > same thing.  I replace everything in the computer (power supply, ram,
> > video, nic, hd, processor fan) trying to get it fixed.  Even loaded
> > win98 (it happend about every 10 minutes after I did that)  Finally
> > gave up and got a new mb.  All has been fine since then.
> >
> > Good luck
> > Chris
> >
> >> Question:
> >> Every three or four hours my machine cuts its power and reboots (often
> >> the BIOS has an error at this point and the machine won't boot at all
> >> 'till I actually hit the power button). It almost feels like a heat
> >> issue but I've got the machine in a cool room (basement) and the heat
> >> sensors don't register anything above normal. It also seems to be
> >> completely independent of anything I'm doing, it's just as likely to
> >> cut while the machine is idle as during heavy usage.
> >>
> >> So then I thought it might be software and I tried to reconfigure my
> >> kernel. I took out the power management and I thought my problems were
> >> solved, the machine stayed up for a week solid but now it's doing it
> >> again and I can't think what I might have changed to make the problem
> >> come back.
> >>
> >> My System:
> >> AMD 1800+ processor
> >> MSI KT3 Ultra mainboard
> >> 512MB DDR RAM
> >> Debian Linux
> >>
> >> I took it to the people I bought it from and they said that one of my
> >> HD's reported bad in some diagnostics and they thought it was
> >> responsible... The problem is that I'm now running the machine without
> >> that drive and it's still doing it.
> >>
> >> Can anybody think what it might be and what I can do to solve the
> >> problem? I've searched the internet for docs talking about this
> >> problem but it doesn't seem to be common enough that anybody has
> >> written and poasted anything on it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
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> > Chris Funk
> > Network Administrator
> > Golden Coast Management
> > chris at goldencoast.com
> >
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