[thechat] Red Hat keeps locking

Seb seb at members.evolt.org
Thu Dec 13 19:17:03 CST 2001


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>MB Abit KT7 Raid
>CPU Athlon 1000mhz
>IBM 20 gig drive
>IBM 40 gig drive
>DVD Drive
>HP CDR-W
>And a few other things that may or may not be important.

If one of them is a Soundblaster Live sound card, pull it out. Throw it 
away. Burn it.

There's a known issue with the SB Live soundcard and the KT133 chipset, 
especially when you've got the Highpoint HPT370 raid controller on board. 
The SB Live has an SB16 emulator chip on it with a *hardwired* that 
conflicts with the IRQ reserved for the HPT raid controller.

If this is the case, you can try putting the SB card in other slots (I have 
the exact same setup as you, except for a bigger disk ;-P so slot 3 should 
work ) . I can give you a whole list of steps to resolve this problem if it 
exists.

Otherwise, there is a remote possibility that you have some dodgy RAM. Try 
rotating the DIMMs out and see if removing any one of them solves your lockups.

Good luck,

Seb.
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