Ken Smith wrote:
Strong wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 16:09 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
This is a reliability question. I have a system config'd as
follows:-
1) ASUS P4P800 MB
2) 1G Memory
3) Matrox Video
4) 3Ware Escalade SATA Raid controller
5) FC3
The problem here is in chipset... I do not remember exactly which of FCs
didn't work (FC1 or FC3) on this motherboard... But I saw it was written
(i think it was FC3) in the release-notes or whatever, that on some
motherboards of this series it may not work. But it is unlike with FC4.
So, You have three choices here:
1) Use FC4;
2) Use FC2;
3) Change Your motherboard.
Thanks for all the input. I found the RH Bugzilla report.There seems to
be some subtle problem with Linux and this MB.
Does any one know the basic cause of the problem or whether there is any
reason to think that FC4 onward will be any more stable on this MB? Or
have we found a M$ only MB? (A WinMB). I have one running W2K without
problems.
So I suspect the basic ability to fetch instructions from memory and
execute them is working fine. Otherwise nothing will run. So it would
seem to me to be a subtle issue between a driver and the hardware that
is bringing the system down. So unless one of the drivers has changed I
don't see why this MB would become reliable.
Eth0 is a 3com chip.With FC1 and the original Linux driver released by
ASUS, it produced corrupt packets. ICMP Ping would work but port 53 DNS
packets were corrupt - so the network 'sort of' worked. I found another
driver (Sysconnect I think) that worked better. If that driver is flaky
then it could be the heart of the problem but it could be any of the
drivers at fault. Whatever it is, it kills the system fundamentally - no
log report, no kernel panic - just instant death. I lack the diagnostic
tools to debug driver/hardware issues that I once used with 286's. My
FC1 on this MB is steady. FC3 crashes in 36-48 hours.
Anyone with more in depth information?
Thanks
Ken
We have around 30 machines in a lab and maybe a server that runs P4P800
and FC3 and they all work fine. We use the sk98lin module for the
network card. Only difference with you is that we run vanilla kernels.
There were issues with the NVIDIA driver but later releases have solved
these. Maybe you could check your hardware (memtest86, different power
supply, run it with bare minimum hardware etc)?
Serge
