Athlon 64 2800+ on ASUS K8V SE freezing

[João Carlos Mendes Luís]

usenet04 at rootofallevil.net wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:31:45PM -0200, João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>    I've been running a test machine with FreeBSD-amd64 5.3-stable 
>>since 5.3-beta.  It's a Athlon 64 2800+ on ASUS K8V SE, 512M DDR400 and 
>>2 Seagate SATA 200 on Promise RAID1.  In the test setup, no problem was 
>>found, except for the onboard sk(4), which has been "replaced" by an 
>>Intel fxp(4).
>>
>>    Then, after migrating for production work, this same machine is now 
>>freezing (no panics, just full freeze) after some time.  I could not yet 
>>find a repeatable procedure to freeze this machine.  I have removed 
>>almost every non-essencial driver from the kernel and non-essencial 
>>daemons from running, but it still freezes.
> 
> 
> I had the same problem with an 3000+ and same mainboard. I replaced my
> 360W power supply with a new 500W and things are working now.
> Maybe that solves your problem.

     I also thought this was the problem, but now we have a SevenTeam 
550W PFC power source and the system still freezes.   :-(

     Just wondering: Could there be a counter on ataraid that had some 
conversion problem when migrated to 64 bit?  I've read another report of 
an user having the same problem, repeatable after lots of disk access.

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João Carlos Mendes Luís