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From: Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@st.com>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: swapping processor problem
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:59:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EC35F53.7090605@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC215DE.50202@st.com>

On 11/15/2011 08:33 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> I have two gentoo boxes, X has an ASUS M2NPV-VM with AMD64 3500+ CPU, Y
> has a AMD64 X2 5600+ CPU. Since I need more juice on X I thought I could
> swap CPUs.
> 
> After updating X's BIOS the system with the 'new' CPU boots up to the
> MythTv screen with no error but does not respond to the USB keyboard nor
> 
> My first thought was that X (and Y) WERE compiled with '-march=native'
> GCC flag and maybe the 5600+ does not execute properly the 3500+ code.
> But a quick search on wikipedia shows that 5600+ has a superset of the
> 3500+ so I should have problems putting the 3500+ in the Y box, not
> vice-versa.

I did some more testing, the lock occurs also when booting from CD so I
excluded a software problem. So I tried swapping also the PSU, still
locks. I ended up swapping also the motherboards, apparently no locks
(but I need a new kernel). So it looks like the combination of ASUS
M2NPV-VM motherboard plus MD64 X2 5600+ CPU was causing the lock. I just
don't understand why.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15  7:33 [gentoo-user] swapping processor problem Raffaele BELARDI
2011-11-16  6:59 ` Raffaele BELARDI [this message]
2011-11-16  7:11 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-16  7:26   ` Raffaele BELARDI
2011-11-16  7:34   ` Dale
2011-11-16  8:08     ` Raffaele BELARDI
2011-11-16  8:23       ` Dale
2011-11-16  8:33         ` Raffaele BELARDI
2011-11-16  8:55           ` Dale
2011-11-16  9:31             ` James Broadhead
2011-11-16  9:51               ` Dale

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