random hard lock ups on nforce2 chip set mobo?

5mi11er · 08-10-2004, 03:17 PM

I've spent the past 4 days working on and looking for help on my particular hard freeze problem on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo.

While I had dug deeply enough to think that it was an IDE problem because I could reliably reproduce the problem by issueing a 'fsck.ext3 -vcc /dev/hda1' after booting off of a knoppix linux on CD, it turns out the problem is with timing of interupts etc with the nforce 2 chip set and the linux kernel.

See the following link for a better description and links to patches and work arounds:

http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/nforce2/index.html

-Scott

enyawix · 08-11-2004, 09:01 PM

What kernel? What ever you do stay away from 2.6.6

GodSendDeath · 08-26-2004, 10:20 PM

what was wrong with 2.6.6?

-GSD

hw-tph · 08-26-2004, 11:11 PM

Use the search function of this site.

The nforce2 chipset has a couple of ACPI and APIC-related bugs. To bypass the issue, pass "noapic" and "acpi=off" to the kernel at boot time. If you use Grub, simply add "noapic acpi=off" to the end of the kernel line (without the quotes!). If you use Lilo, add this line:

Code:

append="noapic acpi=off"

...to /etc/lilo.conf, rerun /sbin/lilo to let the changes take effect and then reboot.

Håkan