On Tuesday September 24 2002 09:57 am, Marcia wrote:
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
<snip> spare y'all from repeats ;)
> Dear All,
>
> I have been following this thread since the mem=nopentium did not
> completely solve my problem afterall. I went to the ftp site with
> the fix and downloaded it. Actually I could not download it from the
> main site and had to search for a mirror for it.
What 'fix'?
> Marcia
Since the 'nopentium' bandaid didn't fix it, let's start again
Marcia. List the hardware involved, particularly mobo, psu, video, and
what Mandrake version, which video drivers are used. Ram vendor, if
you know? IIRC, it's Mdk 8.2, with an ECS mobo. Got the model/
revision/bios vendor and numbers? A link to their website for the
board would be best, and we can try an' figure it all out together. As
you only mentioned 'onboard video', which? ...how much system ram does
it use? If it's a ready made system, from who ? What was the original
installed OS ?
Also, while we're at it, what does
cat /proc/interrupts ...and
lspcidrake ...and
lspci say?
FWIW, your problem may not be video related at all, but hardware and/
or configuration in general. So, in the meantime, try takin the case
cover off and point a table fan into it directed towards the cpu-hs/fan
and the mobo's chipset. Does that reduce or eliminate the problem? It
would help a lot if you have lm_sensors/gkrellm installed and report
some temps under load. Another good report would be if you can run
memtest86 overnite without errors (there's an rpm for it on your CD's).
I'll warn you upfront tho, it's a hard, often lengthly process for
anybody to diagnose hardware problems 'over the phone' (ie, not hands
on).
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