Home | FAQ | Server | Presentations | Mailing Lists/Archives | Member Tools | Links | Sponsors | ContactHome | FAQ | Server | Presentations | Mailing Lists/Archives | Member Tools | Links | Sponsors | ContactSeems I also spoke a little too soon on the stability of our GX620s. After my imaging was complete on Friday, I rebooted all of the machines... And about a third of them boot to GDM and then the screen starts flickering and freaking out. This is the *exact* same operating system image that is working fine on the other 66% of the machines, which are configured the *exact* same way. No explanation, and the machine seems fine but is rendered completely unusable. SSHing to the machines works fine, it's just that X is very unhappy.
Reseating the video card doesn't seem to help. Standing the machine up like a little tower doesn't seem to help. I'm installing the new ATI drivers today, and will update the BIOS if that doesn't seem to help. At that point, it's either a hardware or heat issue.
I'll let you all know if I stumble upon a solution.
ryan woodsmall
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Subject: Re: [MLUG] Urgh, I hate dell/intel (trying to install gentoo linux)
*sigh* After a few days of messing with these machines, I'm about to
call it quits. Call dell and all that. I get random crashes in
windows, with the dump file mentioning things like page faults. The
linux kernel fails whenever I try and boot the 64 bit version of
Gentoo. If I take that same CD to another GX620, it works fine. SO,
I'm guessing a hardware issue of some sort on this machine. The odd
thing is the x86 version of gentoo boots fine. SO, I'm also guessing
it's something with the 64 bit extensions on the processor.... Of
course, the cd sometimes throws errors, i.e. the init scripts will
fail or other odd things will happen... *SIGH* ok, time to find the
dell numbers to call them.
Oh, the last odd thing, all the hardware diagnostics show it's a good
system... URGHGGGGGGGGG
Jason
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On May 26, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Woodsmall, Ryan ((IATS)) wrote:
> I am literally doing a multicast SystemImager install on 38 GX620s
> at this moment. I built both Red Hat Enterprise 3 and Red Hat
> Enterprise 4 images on the same box and never had any lockups or
> crashes. These are the SFF 620s, but we installed ATI cards for
> accelerated OpenGL.
>
> No problems here so far, but we'll see how these little devils hold
> up as lab machines when the students are in class.
>
> ryan woodsmall
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED on behalf of McIntosh Jason
> Sent: Fri 5/26/2006 1:45 PM
> To: Members MLUG
> Subject: [MLUG] Urgh, I hate dell/intel (trying to install gentoo
> linux)
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> We just got in some new Optiplex GX620 machines with dual core
> processors. Ya gotta love how crappy these machines are. For a VERY
> overpriced, price, you get a ton of crap (literally). On to the
> problems now that I've stated that:
>
> I've been fighting with one of these machines for quite a while now.
> Initially, things went really well. It seemed to be decently fast
> (although I still think the Opteron's/Athlon 64's are faster).
> However, after using this thing for a few days, I discovered some ...
> problems. Now, some of these problems may be related to trying to
> use the 64 bit version of Linux, but it's very odd that it only crops
> up after the machine has been running for a day and a half. And,
> that if I let the machine sit for a bit of time, whereupon I can run
> it for about 5 minutes, before I get problems again. I'm guessing
> this is heat related, but it's DANGED annoying. I've gotten a lot of
> kernel panics, or just complete hangs at various points. I'm trying
> the x86 version now. My first attempt to boot I received tons of
> errors, and now, well... it booted, but then it felt really really
> slow... URGHHHH.
>
> Ok, enough of that rant. Anyone ever seen a similar issue with these
> machines? I'm about to put my fist through it right now... ERGH.
> Jason
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