Re: [opensuse] Replaced ALL HW: Tyan S2469 Athlon MP still hangs OpenSuSE 10.2



Yep, I changed the power supply too (although, these boards are known
for bad power distribution). Still, no joy :(

On 7/23/07, Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Monday 23 July 2007 13:40, Chris Worley wrote:
> Tearing out my hair on this one...
>
> A few months ago, a new kernel caused printing to freeze the system,
> but I don't think that's related (have tried all BIOS settings;
> one-way, ECP, EPP).
>
> The first symptom was (your not going to believe it) Firefox tabs quit
> responding to the mouse. (That seemed to be fixed after replacing the
> motherboard... but, I'm getting ahead of the story.)
>
> System started hanging a few weeks ago. No error messages... just
> hangs tight. I was playing w/ some new hardware and had to
> power-cycle a lot, so I figured I killed some HW.
>
> I removed a processor... didn't fix it; replaced the running
> processor, with the one I took out... didn't fix it.
>
> I tried running one stick of RAM at a time... didn't fix it.
>
> Removed all peripherals, swapped video cards, disabled USB, printer,
> and serial in the BIOS, replaced the SCSI card, replaced SCSI w/ IDE
> (same image)... didn't fix it.
>
> Replaced the motherboard, with new processors... didn't fix it.
>
> Put all the PCI adapters/devices/video disks on a newer Intel
> motherboard... it works... no hangs!


Did you change the power supply?

Nick
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