[NCLUG] machine cuts power

[mbutcher at aleph-null.tv]

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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