I have a Tyan dual Opteron motherboard that I can make work, but it will
not reboot correctly requiring a clearing of the CMOS then re-setup of
CMOS and sometimes it even locks up while running. Haven't found the
cause yet. But your discussion makes me believe I should take a second
look at the memory, maybe even try a different version memory device set.
Bill
> Hi Simon,
> I had a similar problem on a Thinkpad using the 32-bit version.
> It turned out to be a wrong memory module, I had a 512 MB PC2100 (266
> Mhz) SO-DIMM installed and the machine needs PC2700 (333 MHz) memory.
> Some times the machine booted fine only to give problems later (Kernel
> panic), some times it stopped when setting the time right at the place
> that you indicate.
> Memtest reported the memory as ok, but maybe it's not running it at 333
> MHz at the time of the test (??).
> Best regards,
> Chris
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 12:23 -0800, Simeon Nifos wrote:
>> Dear List,
>> I have a quad Opteron (4x846 CPU) with a TYAN S4882
>> motherboard! I succesfully installed fedora Core 3
>> on the first of the 2 SATA hard disks! Unfortunately
>> it gives the following error message during boot:
