Re: ASUS P4P800 MB FC3 Crashing

[Ken Smith <kens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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.
>
> 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
Vanilla Kernels here too. We are running SMP - are you. Ran a memory 
test for 72+ hours no failures. Do you have 3ware controllers in your H/W?

Ken