>
> We also got a very useful hint from GigaByte Taiwan: They gave us a list of
> capacitors which should be removed to turn a 1C board into a 1E board :-)
>
Can you pass that list on to the rest of us??
Thanks,
Lyle
> Thankx
>
> chris
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > we recently bought two nearly identical Dual PentiumII Systems. One of them
> > is working quite stable, the other one gives strange warnings and error
> > messages and hangs quite often.
> >
> > System desc:
> >
> > both of them have
> > dual PII/333Mhz
> > GigaByte GA-686DLX Motherboard
> > onboard Adaptec AIC7880 SCSI-Ctrl
> > 3Com 3c905 Boomerang Networkcard
> > DCAS-32160W 2Gb HD
> > XM-6201TA SCSI CdRom
> > internal Iomega ZIP Drv
> >
> > the _WORKING_ System has in addition
> > 128 Mb SDRam
> > DDRS-39130W 9Gb Hd
> > Mad16 Soundcard
> > Matrox Millenum II AGP/8Mb
> >
> > the _FAILING_ System has in addtion
> > 512 Mb SDRam
> > DGHS-?? 18 Gb Hd
> > ATI PCI Graphics
> >
> >
> > both systems are running 2.1.105-SMP with no patches and (hopefully) all system
> > utilities uptodate.
> >
> > With the 18Gb HD installed, the system hangs with a message :
> >
> > Unknown Interrupt
> >
> > as the last syslog entry and the system hangs.
> >
> > By replacing the 18Gb Hd by an 4Gb Quantum SCSI Hd we got the strange
> > warning:
> > Uhhuh: NMI received for unknown reason 2c
> > Dazed and confused but trying to continue.
> > Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> >
> > useless to mention that we don't have _any_ power saving mode enabled.
> > After this message, the system did still work.
> >
> > Before using the 2.1.106 we had the 2.0.33 installed. There the second
> > system hang without _ANY_ message. With both kernel, the non-SMP mode
> > works well.
> >
>
> --
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> Drexler | Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
> | Martensstr. 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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