On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 18:01 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > I've got a machine running CentOS 3.5 with an Intel D865GBF > motherboard and I've been having an occasional "event" where > disk-intensive activity (such as running "yum check-update" or > starting up OpenOffice) causes the load average to spike and X11 to > become unresponsive (as in, the pointer won't even track the mouse) > for a few seconds. The machine always recovers and returns to normal, > but it's getting a bit annoying. > > I saw one thread in which the suggested solution for a vaguely similar > problem was to switch from the SMP kernel with hyperthreading to the > UP kernel, but that hasn't made much difference. Then I saw Dave G's > recent thread in which a more severe yum-related lockup was solved > with a BIOS upgrade. > > I see there's a D865GBF BIOS upgrade on the Intel site, dating from > May. Problem is it comes only as either a Windows installer, or a > bootable floppy -- and not only does this machine not have a floppy > drive, but the case configuration is such that the DVD-ROM drive > blocks access to the floppy connector on the motherboard, so I'm > looking at minor surgery just to stick one in temporarily. > > Is there any clever way around this? Some way to make a bootable CD > from the floppy image, for example? Or must I grit my teeth and bring > out the screwdrivers? http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050822/e50208c2/attachment-0005.sig>