> > I have this problem, and it is not caaauused by the ATI timer bug. I > > don't have an ATI chipset, and none of the suggesssted fixes for the > > ATI timer bug (booting with disable_timer_pin_1, noapic, acpi=off, > > notsc, etc.) has any effect. > > Did you upgrade your BIOS? This completely solved the problem for me on > a Gigabyte K8NF9 Ultra board, nivida chips. ATI is only in the AGP slot.
BIOS is the latest version. I didn't mention it, but my mobo is an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum, CPU is an Athlon64 X2 4200+. I also disabled CPU spread spectrum in the BIOS, since some people report that that can interfere with timing. It didn't help. It would be useful to run another OS for a few days on this host, to see if the problem occurs there too. But I don't have another OS installed, and this host is my gateway and file server so it's not easy just to switch OSes. Another possibility would be to run a 32-bit Linux kernel on it for a while. That could be done, but again would require a whole new OS installation. I do wonder if this is a BIOS problem, since you say a BIOS upgrade fixed the problem for you. I can write to MSI about it, but won't hold my breath for a new BIOS update to fix it :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
