Spurious Interrupts.. AMD64 and 2.6.3-r2

rgoodkin

Hello,

Run into quite the frustrating problem. Got a biostar nforce3 board and AMD64 3200+ on Friday. Got everything working great using 2004.0, decided to reinstall as I wanted to partition differently. Upgraded bios and redid the install. Now from the livecd I get random lockups, or I will get a message on the console saying "spurious interrupt IRQ7" and things will slow down to a CRAWL. MOved the jumper and reset the bios to factory thinking that was it, but still the same problem. Disabled APIC in the bios as well and no help. Strange that I Had no problems previously.. THis is very frustrating, please help!

Running 2.6.3-r2 (livecd)..

Thanks,
Bob

jsc1959 · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:54 pm Post subject:

Well first things first.....

1. I would check your memroy with memtest and if you run into problems with that set your memory settings to what the manufacturer recommends....these cpus are very picky about their memory.

2. Reinstall the old version of your bios if it wasnt causing you any problems.

3. Read the tech notes at http://amd64.gentoo.org . Try booting the livecd with some of the options listed thier passed to the kernel.
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rgoodkin · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject:

Wouldn't shorting the appropriate pins reload the original factory bios? Or does it just restore to factory defaults..

THanks,
BOb

jsc1959 · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:48 am Post subject:

all that does is restore the factory defaults....correct.
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rgoodkin · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:31 pm Post subject:

This is all so very frustrating. Is it possible I could have an intermitant hardware failure? I disabled apic and it seemed work great. But I woke up this morning and it hung up. IF it doesn't hang up and starts to slow down to a crawl, with no indication in dmesg what is going on. Ideas of some things to check??

THanks,
Bob

jhuebel · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:14 pm Post subject:

These errors appear to be because APIC is enabled in your kernel. Passing "noapic" to your kernel may not disable APIC, either. Try removing APIC from your kernel and see if there error disappears.

You may also take a look at these search results on google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=spurious+interrupt+IRQ7
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rgoodkin · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject:

Well I disabled APIC in the bios.. shouldn't that alleviate all my woes? How do I REMOVE apic from the kernel? I see no option for it in the curses based menuconfig..

Thanks,
Bob

mallchin · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:32 pm Post subject:

The spurious interupt isn't a fatal problem and I have had that on most boxes I've built (although I have never experienced any slowdown).

Are you sure it's the spurious interupt causing this?
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rgoodkin · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:05 pm Post subject:

Well I'm sure what it was, but I RMA'd all the components (MB, CPU, Mem) and now everything works like a champ. Seemed unlikely that it was a hardware problem, but I'm happy to be suprised.

mallchin · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:23 pm Post subject: