Problems with dual Athlons

[Manel Soria]

Hi,

Please let me report a problem that we have  in our cluster with dual Athlons
in case that somebody can help us.

We have 4 dual athlon systems running kernel 2.4.18 (gcc 2.95.2).
Two of them crash frequently and the other two run fine.
We have tried to replace different hardware  components and desactivate
the SMP option but the problem persists.

The main difference between them is that the systems that crash
(the servers) have two network interfaces while the systems that run
fine (normal nodes) have only one network interface.
Can this be the cause of the problem ?  Would it be a good idea to use
another version of gcc ?

The motherboard is an ASUS AM7M266-D. One of the systems that
crashes is running Debian 2.1  and the other Debian 2.2. The systems
that don't crash run Debian 2.1.

"Crash" here means that the VGA display is blank and the system has to
be reseted. There is no other relevant message.

Thanks


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