Resolve stability issue on cubieboard 2 Jul 05, 2014
There is some reports 1 2 3 on stability problem on cubieboard2. See issue #319, as explains by Siarhei Siamashka, I quote:
It has been confirmed that a substantial percentage of cubieboard2 and cubietruck users are having stability issues. These issues are caused by having various voltages optimistically configured way too low. Because each unit has its own tolerances, not everyone can easily reproduce these problems.
A very detailed discussion can be found here.
#Resolve the problem
- Plan A
apply this patch manually to your script.bin. - Plan B
Download script.bin already patched from here then overwrite yours. - Plan C
Runcubian-update --update-board-cfg
#Verify if the problem resolved
- Install latest kernel
apt-get update && apt-get install linux-image
- Install hardware tester
apt-get install cpuburn-sunxi lima-memtester
- Run hardware tester
cpuburn-sunxi
to test if the CPU will overheat while doing heavy work.
cpufreq-stress-test-sunxi
to test if the CPU is stable at every frequency.
lima-memtester
to test if memory is working fine.
#Screenshots