can you change you AGP speed, try clocking back to 2x or 4X in the BIOS and see if that helps...
Dave. On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Kevin Saenz wrote: > Gonzalo, > > I used to have that problem. My computer would freeze in Windows > when ever playing a 3d game. I found it would freeze spasmodically > using Linux. The problem was with my mother board and a buggy ACPI > component. Now I have ACPI modules installed and I have not > experienced a freeze. > > Hope that helps. > > BTW, I have not tried other cards I have a Nvidia GeForce 4. > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm experiencing complete (and random) system freezes every day or two. > > I've not found a pattern yet, it happens at random. System specs as follows: > > > > Athlon 1800+ CPU > > 256MB DDR > > Matrox G400 Dualhead > > 2 x HDD > > 2 x SCSI CDROM > > 1 x FDD > > > > First I thought it was maybe overheating so I installed lm-sensors. It > > didn't seem to be overheating, so I left it running for a while and the > > levels continued to look OK. It was then suggested to me that maybe my PSU > > was either not powerful enough or dodgy. It was only a 200W so I went out > > and bought a 320W PSU. It looked promising as it didn't crash for *gasp* 4 > > days! but it froze on me twice last night. Since then, I've been running > > memtest. 8 hours & 46 passes later with no errors, I'm thinking it's not > > the RAM (the CPU, mobo and RAM are all brand new). My system was fine > > before I upgraded to a new mobo/CPU. > > > > FWIW, the system is running Gentoo kernel 2.4.19, and also when I say > > system freeze I mean the system just locks up. Can't press CTRL-ALT-F1, > > can't ping it, etc. > > > > As you can imagine it's really annoying so I was hoping someone could shed > > some light on this. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Best regards, > > Gonzalo > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED] pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
