yeah, look around. i don't know your exact situation, but there are many many many threads about booting issues. i'll be happy to join in on another thread that's more on topic :)

Well so far after three and a half hours "downloading torrents" this is looking very promising, except my cpu temp is about the same as running prime95. Oh well suppose you can't have everything.

Ian, how are you monitoring CPU temp in Leo? I couldn't find a good app back when I was looking for one. Any suggestions?

I have been running with idlehalt=0 and torrents for 5.5 hours now and it's looking good for me too! i wonder if we have any decline in performance though? i don't notice anything, but i haven't run any benchmarks yet...let's keep updating here and hopefully we've (finally) found our fix!

Hi guys,

Seems a lot has been discussed since yesterday. I will also try this idlehalt setting. I've heard of it before but didn't think it would do any good anymore with the new kernels etc...

I need a new install too but I don't know which of the releases to try, Zeph's latest or Leo4all latest, hmmm.

Okay system on overnight no crashes no funny mouse so this is looking really good, final test system overclocked -> that also is looking very good.
agrafuese my temperature monitor is hardware I have a thermometer wired to the underside of my thermalright xp120 heatsink, and believe me when I say this is running hotter than it has ever reached even running benchmarking software, so I would be careful anyone who doesn't have a temperature monitor.
I would say also definately no decrease in performance, possibly a slight increase.
So the only downside is temperature which I can live with I live in a cold house lol.

Hey there,

i*ve tried the same and for me it's getting even more worse than before. Mouse starts to jump around after an hour uptime +/- a few moments.

While typing this text Firefox crashed at least 2 times =(

I don't know about the temperature since i don't have a thermometer for my CPU, nontheless i'm pretty sure it can't be high since my CPU-fan runs slow (speed of my fan is controlled by CPU-temp).

Apps running right now:
NetnewsWire
Firefox
Thunderbird

Transmission crashed while i was sleeping so i had to restart my machine around an hour ago.

Update:
My machine crashed completely this time. The loading circle appeared and that's it .... another restart.

I really hope someone is able to find a solution.

Cheers,
Tom

Just to update the temperature thing my processor usually runs around 35degrees maxing out at around 50 under full load.
With this in place its nearer 60degrees

So I'm guessing this is the final straw for me I'm going to invest in an Intel processor something I haven't done for nearly ten years

Was just about to aks you on the temp numbers. From 50 to 60 under load. What's idle like? If idle also ups by 10 then it's not worth it but if it's only on load I can live with it.

Sad to hear we're going to loose another AMD user who contributed a lot to this board, hmm, can't say that for myself.

But on the other hand, I do encourage you to jump the Intel bandwagon, so good luck!

I don't have a temp monitor like you do but I'll try the idlehalt tweak anyway. Thx for the info lad.

Ahhh shit! I was worried about that. I don't have a CPU thermometer either and so I have no clue what's going on in there. I wonder if I can quickly restart my computer and look at my temps in BIOS really fast before the temp goes down? Anyone know if that works? Upside is, I too have been stable with torrents for over 18 hours now! I don't overclock anymore, so maybe my temps will be lower than yours Ian?

@subsonic: It's really strange that you have more problems with this setting than before. Are you doing any overclocking or memory tweaks in BIOS? And what are your specs?

Your BIOS would be a great place to start. Try that first.