Is anyone else playing SL on a dual Xeon box? I am, and I've got crashing problems. Now, I know that some games have troubles with dual Xeon boxes (Syberia comes to mind, for example) but I don't know if my SL crashing problems are due to, say, thermal stress on a video chip that's running flat-out, or if there's a software problem with SL running on dual Xeons.
So, anyone else running on dual Xeons? Are you having crashing problems? What's your video card?
I'm running a Ti4800 on an Iwill DP533 motherboard with the latest Catalyst drivers, latest chipset drivers, and latest motherboard BIOS. Machine hangs from time to time, hard hang, reset button required. The Xeons are 2.4 GHz.
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Caern Westerburg
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05-08-2004 17:51
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Andrienna Rutherford
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05-11-2004 00:58
well...no dual Xeons here, but maybe you might put up some specific driver version #'s?
..I just question what you have running in there since you say you are running a Ti4800 as your graphics platform .... ...with Catalyst drivers? Presumably you mean Forceware... did ya have an ATI chipset once? |
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Cadroe Murphy
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05-13-2004 06:54
My SL machine has two 1.5ghz Xeons and an Nvidia Quadro2Pro video card and I've never had any problems. I did notice that in the About dialog, SL only mentions one CPU. I don't know if that's just the way it's phrased or if it's only detecting one.
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Colin Linden
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05-13-2004 10:25
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What's your AGP apeture set to in the BIOS? I do remember a case where someone with a dual Xeon had to drop it down to 128 to stop a crash. Regards, Colin Linden |
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Huns Valen
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05-13-2004 17:27
Too bad SL doesn't take advantage of multithreading. That would be a great rig.
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Caern Westerburg
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05-14-2004 02:02
Oh, well that was silly of me. I'm running the latest NVidia drivers, 56.72, and yeah, they're called Forceware. I did once have an ATI card (9600? I forget) but had to rip it out due to severe stability problems in just about everything.
Good to know other dual Xeons are working. I reinstalled the mobo drivers. They seem to have the same date and revision as before, but I'm not seeing hangs any more. I took an IR probe to the thing's innards and all the temps on heatsinks, etc. are between 85-100 deg F. So the temperature's probably all right. Which means, if it hangs again, I'm stuck.  |
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Huns Valen
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05-17-2004 03:01
If it still screws up, try turning off the second processor in the BIOS if you can. I found that Knoppix (CD linux distro) would boot with two penguins (indicating 2 CPUs) on my P4C, due to hyperthreading, but it would hang in the middle of the boot process. If I disabled hyperthreading, it booted with one penguin, and started normally.
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