On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:55:21 -0800, Byron Servies <bservies@pacang.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not saying this is your problem, but a few years ago I had a VP6
> that worked in single CPU mode but not dual with NetBSD 1.6.
> Eventually, after having it lock up periodically, I gave up and ran
> it as a single CPU machine.  That lasted a couple of months before
> the CPU0 socket failed entirely and the machine stopped booting at all.
> 
> No smoke.  No noise.  The board/cpu was just plain bad, and there was
> no indication before it let go for good that this was the case.
> 
> Byron

I'm hoping it's not something like that. I don't think it is, because it would be a bit of an unfortunate coincidence that the motherboard started to fail at the same time as I switch it from Linux to NetBSD.

Currently running GENERIC.MPDEBUG, hasn't locked up yet.

Chris.