Miles,

What kernel version are these running?

-connie sieh
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Miles O'Neal 
wrote:

> After the upgrade from RH8 to SL304, most
> of our few stability problems seem to have
> gone away.  However, we gained some new
> stability problems.
> 
> We have 10 systems that ar eover two years
> old that have never given us a single
> problem, no matter how hard we flogged
> them.  These are 2.4GHz P4 systems using
> the Intel D845PE boards (no onboard LAN,
> audio or video).  They all have some form
> of 3Com 509 and a variety of video cards,
> including S3 Virge, ATI and Matrox.
> 
> Since the SL304 upgrade a couple of months
> ago, 7 of these boxes have locked up or
> shown a kernel panic, most of them more
> than once, two on an almost daily basis.
> The shop who builds our systems can't
> find anyhting wrong with them, and ran
> the two that die daily here for two weeks
> at their shop with no glitches.  All their
> diag tools run under Windows or DOS) so
> this appears to be OS-related.  (Other
> systems on the same UPSes show no problems,
> so it's not a power issue).
> 
> It can happen when they're really busy
> or (it seems) even when they're idle.
> 
> I wondered about microcode issues; the
> microcode_ctl startup task is on and the
> logs show it ran:
> 
>    Oct 25 10:24:48 sim026 kernel: microcode: No suitable data for cpu 0
> 
> There's nothing suspicious in the logs;
> they just lock up.  Both systems that
> locked up today had the CAPS LOCK and
> SCROLL LOCK keyboard LEDs flashing.
> 
> Has anyone else seen anything like this?
> 
> Our AMD systems are all fine, and the
> other Intel boxes (faster SuperMicros
> using I forget what board) are fine...
> 
> Thanks,
> Miles
> 
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