Topic: Installation problem

[jonash]

I'm about to install SME 7.3 on a P4 1.8 GHz computer with 768 MB. Disk is 320 Gb.

There is W2K installed on the machine at the moment.

When I choose sme at boot prompt, the installation continues to "format disk" but after 11% the machine crashes with "Fatal exception in interrupt".
When I choose smei586, it continues to "format disk" but crashes in the same way after 23%...

It is probably a hardware issue, but im not familiar with this sort of hardware. Maybe a BIOS update is needed...

Any suggestions?

Thank you!

Jonas

[jonash]

All of a sudden it started to work...

There is a option in the BIOS setup menu which is called "CPU SpeedEasy". It was set on x14, and I changed it to x10, and then the installation worked!
I put it back to x14 and it seems to boot correctly. Are there any issues with this setting?

Thank you!

Jonas

[idp_qbn]

This should probably be in "General" rather than "SME Server 7.X" because it is not an issue related to the release CD.
BUT....here we go anyway.

Overclocking is OK as long as you are prepared to put up with a less reliable system. If you want the thrills, you may have to put up with some spills.

For a SERVER, I would want to use it at the default specs, the ones recommended by the manufacturer, unless there was a very good reason and I had a good backup strategy in place.

You know you have some issues with CPU Speedup = 14, even if they are seemingly minor. The issues seemed to have disappeared at CPU Speedup=10.

If you really must have that higher speed,  test your system for a while (say a month nonstop) for reliability at the higher speed before committing serious data to it. Even then, make sure you have a backup system (DAR2 is good). If there is any problem during the test, revert to the lower speed.

The mitigating factor in this is (I assume) the system worked OK with Windows at that speed for some time.

Cheers

Ian 

[jonash]

Yes, I guess I put it in the wrong place....

I dont need the overclocking, it just happened to be set. It's a second hand computer, so I will probably stay with the defaults.
Thanks for your answer!

Jonas

[jonash]

I made some test...
When I have it on x10, the installation works, but the reboot crashes... I changed to x8, which is the lowest value, and reinstalled it. After this, it seems to work, I have done a couple of reboots...
I cant find a way to set it to x1, which I think should be the most "deafaultish" setting... Is there a way to disable this feature?

I search on SpeedEasy but I couldn't find any valueable information...

Jonas

[jonash]

I found an entry in BIOS which said something like "Reset to default optimal config". I used it, and everything seems to work...

[idp_qbn]

Glad you seem to be making some progress.
The previous owner must have tweaked the system to the very edge of its performance.
The default settings should be the most reliable - perhaps not the speediest, but they would be the ones the manufacturer of the board determined would give least problems.

Cheers
Ian