On Wednesday 25 September 2002 09:25 am, you wrote: > Dear Tom > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > >>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? > > The link for my board is http://www.ecsusa.com/ and my motherboard is > the L7VMM. I disabled the onboard lan because even though it worked it > was grabbing the same irq as sound. The company sent me a new lan card > which helped that it seems. This is an Athlon 1600+ XP with 512MB PC2100 > DDR, 266 MHZ SDRAM, I had the cooler master added plus an extra case > fan. This is a brand new machine. I have Win95 as a dual boot and Win > does not have the problems that my Linux side has. Most of the specs are > on the link page. tell me you are not trying to use both SDram and DDR ram at the same time... please tell me that you are only using one or the other. and if you are have you tried memtest86? how much ram does windows see? (win 95 can not see more than 512 megs, and would not boot (if my memory serves me) with more than 512.)
> > >> 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 > > cat /proc/interrupts > CPU0 > 0: 246531 XT-PIC timer > 1: 3298 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 5: 17745 XT-PIC eth0 > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > 9: 7262 XT-PIC viaudio > 11: 154 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci > 12: 87498 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse > 14: 53126 XT-PIC ide0 > 15: 4 XT-PIC ide1 > NMI: 0 > LOC: 0 > ERR: 0 > MIS: 0 > >> ...and > >>lspcidrake > > lspcidrake > unknown : VIA Technologies Inc|CPU-to-PCI Bridge > unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] > tulip : ADMtek|ADM983 Linksys EtherFast 10/100 > Bad:www.linmodems.org: Lucent Microelectronics|56k WinModem > unknown : VIA Technologies Inc|VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge > unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] > usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB > usb-uhci : VIA Technologies|VT82C586B USB > unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8233 [AC97 Audio Controller] > unknown : unknown (5333/8d04/ffff/ffff) > unknown : Virtual|Hub [] > unknown : Virtual|Hub [] > scanner : Hewlett-Packard|ScanJet 4300C [] > unknown : Hewlett-Packard|DeskJet 940C > [Printer|Printer|Bidirectional] > > >> ...and > >>lspci > > lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3116 > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet > 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11) > 00:0a.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics 56k WinModem > (rev 01) > 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3147 > 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) > 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 23) > 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 23) > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio > Controller (rev 40) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8d04 > > >> 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). > > There is a temperature and performance utility in the bios. What are > lm_sensors/gkrellm? I would gladly install this if needed. > > Thanks for your help here. I really appreciate your input. Thanks alot. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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