From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Po4UR-0001j2-6J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:41:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8477EE09D1; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aplus.dartworks.biz (aplus.dartworks.biz [206.225.82.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58354E09D1 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dartworks.biz (adsl-75-36-227-91.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [::ffff:75.36.227.91]) (AUTH: CRAM-MD5 mercury) by aplus.dartworks.biz with ESMTPA; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:39:46 -0800 id 00380005.4D55E4E2.00007F50 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:39:44 -0800 From: Keith Dart To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Avoiding HAL Message-ID: <20110211173944.1fcc1e04@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <201102111621.46555.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <201102051309.27808.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20110207170011.5b197af8@dartworks.biz> <201102111621.46555.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Organization: Dartworks X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4e675683329f01106a823ed132f2e91d === On Fri, 02/11, Peter Humphrey wrote: === > As Gentoo seems to be immune to this problem, I assume that other > kernels are setting some parameters that push the hardware to its > limit, so the next thing I'll try is to detune the performance > somewhat. Trouble is, the BIOS setup screens have so many parameters > to adjust that I don't know where to start. === Start by resetting to all defaults.. ;-) Many motherboards these days support "unsafe" settings (overclocking, etc.) and warn you that you can destabilize your board. If you, or anyone else, has ever tweaked those it may be unstable. So try all defaults, or "safe settings" first if you haven't already. -- Keith Dart -- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keith Dart public key: ID: 19017044 =====================================================================