On Monday 27 April 2009, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: >Bad video card? Other than displaying Axis, does the EMC2 Code >require a video card to run? We can run the CPU box headless can't >we? Maybe try a new driver for the video card. Since you had to >reboot the machine, I'm leaning towards the card causing >problems. If it was just the monitor, you shouldn't have had to >reboot the machine. If it was X, usually logging out and logging >back in resets the X server. One thing you can try if it happens >again, since you can get to a command line, is type "init 1", let it >get to single user mode, then type "init 5" to bring it back up to >full-featured run time. After the program completes properly, of >course... ;-) This in effect shuts down the X server, a whole bunch >of other things, then starts them back up again without having to go >through a full reboot. > >Mark > That could be a possibility. I just lost a gforce2-5200-256, funkity fan killed the gpu. It sailed rather nicely, like a frisbee, into the trash can. It now is just as happy with an old 4 megabyte nvidia Vanta, which is so slow there isn't even a heat sink on it. Works fine.
>At 10:18 PM 4/26/2009, you wrote: >>I had an interesting couple of events. The first was while in the middle >>of a long program. The screen went blank, but the program completed >>properly. I had to pull the power plug to reset the computer. It >>happened again today, except this time the screen was scrambled black >>and white. Again, the program completed properly. I then did Ctl-Alt-F1 >>to get to a command line, which was scrambled, but typing the "reboot" >>command worked. Does anybody have thoughts on what the fault might be? >>In other words what could crash the video card and not also take out >>EMC2? >>-- >>Kirk Wallace >>http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ >>http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html >>California, USA >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>--- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial >>Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited >>royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing >>server and web deployment. >>http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >>_______________________________________________ >>Emc-users mailing list >>Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial >Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited >royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing >server and web deployment. >http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out they are another's. -- Susanna Martin, executed for witchcraft, 1681 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
