Asus K7M motherboard/Athon problems

[James Hawtin]

I have resently been experiencing problems with my Asus K7M motherboard (AMI
30/11/99) with an Athon 500Mhz. 

My major problems started when I "updated" from seti 1.3 to seti 2.0, oftain
when I used netscape my system would oftain crash. (Both aggressively use
disk writes)

I have had minor problems with disks, not being recogned by the mother board
from day 1 and my DXR2 card hangs the system after 0-6 seconds of use :-(

I thought may be I had a problem with my Maxtor 20gb hard disk so I swaped
it out, however this fixed nothing. Just fscking was faster as it was
smaller! I has seen from the list, that there are problems with althon/via 
chipsets.

I noticed when my computer starts to started use swap space a crash was
likely to happen soon. To test this, I disabled swap, and filled the
computer with 8 setiathome clients, as they are quite aggresive clients.

And the computer keep working, with swap space enabled the machine would
have died after about 5.

I noticed that seti2 writes it state to disk every 3 seconds! Seems a bit
oftain!

[Oolon in the sunset] ls -ialF state.sah 
  10054 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1533 Jan 31 00:01 state.sah
[Oolon in the sunset] ls -ialF state.sah 
  10045 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1533 Jan 31 00:01 state.sah
[Oolon in the sunset] ls -ialF state.sah 
  10045 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1533 Jan 31 00:01 state.sah
[Oolon in the sunset] ls -ialF state.sah 
  10045 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1533 Jan 31 00:01 state.sah
[Oolon in the sunset] ls -ialF state.sah 
  10054 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1532 Jan 31 00:01 state.sah
[Oolon in the sunset]   

To load the machine more I did a du / and some VT switches and it still kept
working. Finally, I edited the inittab and then died.

I have tried different configuration for the IDE subsystem, both physcially
and using/not using DMA, and it still crashes, any advice? I some other
posts similar to this, however none of the suggestions have fixed my problems.

Just for readers amusement, its nice 30/11/99 bios is not Y2K complient, when 
you enter setup the date changes to 1 march 1999.

James.

[Oolon in the sunset] more /proc/ide/via 
Command register = 0x7
Master Read  Cycle IRDY 0 Wait State
Master Write Cycle IRDY 0 Wait State
FIFO Output Data 1/2 Clock Advance: off
Bus Master IDE Status Register Read Retry: on 
Latency timer = 32 (max. = 0)
Interrupt Steering Swap: off
------------------Primary IDE------------Secondary IDE-----
both channels togth:   yes                     yes
Prefetch Buffer :      on                      on 
Post Write Buffer:     on                      on 
FIFO Conf/Chan. :      08                      08
Threshold Prim. :      1/2                     1/2
Read DMA FIFO flush:   on                      on 
End Sect. FIFO flush:  on                      on 
Max DRDY Pulse Width:  No limitation 
Bytes Per Sector:      512                     512
--------------drive0------drive1-------drive0------drive1----
DMA enabled:    yes         yes          no          no 
Act Pls Width:  03          03           11          11
Recovery Time:  01          01           09          09
Add. Setup T.:  4T          4T           4T          4T
------------------UDMA-Timing-Control------------------------
Enable Meth.:    1           1            0           0
Enable:         yes         yes          no          no 
Transfer Mode: PIO         PIO          DMA         DMA
Cycle Time:     2T          2T           5T          5T
[Oolon in the sunset] 

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