[ubuntu-uk] Phenon 9600 unstable on Ubuntu 7.10

[Rob Beard]

On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 16:54 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >  I wondered if anyone has seen any reports of stability problems on the
> >  AMD Phenon 9600 CPU with Ubuntu 7.10?
> >
> >  I've upgraded my PC this weekend to a Phenom 9600 running on an MSI
> >  motherboard with AMD chipset (it's an AM2+ motherboard with the standard
> >  AMD790FX chipset on it).  I've had nothing but issues with it.
> >
> >  I've reinstalled Ubuntu 7.10 a couple of times, tried 3 different video
> >  cards (ATI Radeon X300, NVidia GeForce 7200GS and a ATI All-In-Wonder
> >  X800GT) and nothing is completely stable.  I keep getting random freezes
> >  (which I can't seem to replicate).
> >
> >  I've checked the CPU temp and that is about 35 degrees and it has 4GB
> >  memory in there from my previous system which was working fine.
> >
> >  So I'm a bit stumped.  I've done a Google search and found something
> >  relating to the network card but it's a different card to what I have on
> >  the board.
> >
> >  Just wondered if anyone had heard anything before I look at trying
> >  another distro (maybe Gentoo or SUSE).
> >
> >  Rob
> >

> Interesting, can you tell me what chipset you have? "NForce ###"
> 

It's an AMD 790FX chipset (the new AMD chipset for AM2+ CPU's).

> I have had some problems with them. Also.. I would try a distro like
> SuSE live, Knoppix... etc.. just to see if its stable.
> 
> 
> Another thing you could check is your kernel logs, to see if something
> happens at time of crash.
> 

I'll have a look in the kernel logs.  I'm also going to give Hardy Alpha
6 a try (can't be much worse!).

Times like this I just feel like downgrading to Vista!!!*

Rob

* Just to get dual head video working and SPDIF passthrough to my
surround sound amp.