[mythtv-users] OT: nForce2 -- the real scoop

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Wednesday 24 December 2003 07:57, Ann Patterson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 22:33, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> > On Dec 23, 2003, at 19:56, Ann Patterson wrote:
> > > I got a Biostar M7NCG 400 about two weeks ago, and I've spent most of
> > > the last two weeks sorting out this problem. The default install of FC1
> > > seems to have APIC and APCI enabled, and I had to pass "noapic nolapic
> > > pci=npapci" to the kernel to get things stable.
> >
> > IO-APIC only. The main APIC part is still off by default. I didn't have
> > to make any changes to my kernel or pass any special parameters to the
> > kernel under either Red Hat Linux 9 or Fedora Core 1 to get a
> > rock-solid nForce2 MythTV system (Chaintech 7NIF2 mobo, now running
> > FC1/MythTV 0.13).
>
> Ahhh yes, you're right, IO-APIC only. My bad.

Heh, there was a fair amount of discussion about it on this list a while back, 
so I'd looked at the stock kernel configs back then. :)

> The messages on the kernel-list indicate that the source of the problem
> seems to be timing issues when the CPU/memory/bus get faster than APIC.
> If the overall speed of the machine is above a certain point, then the
> problems start. That's why some people have problems and some don't.
> Also a good reason why someone putting together a brand new machine
> should be aware.

Any idea what overall speed threshold one would have to be above for problems 
to crop up? I'm running an Athlon XP 2600 w/333FSB...

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