On 11 Sep 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Ok, sorry to have wasted bandwidth and brain cells, I'm back to 4.1 and
> it still freezes. I really dunno why it fails now. I tried changing
> kernel versions, even reflashing motherboard bios to all possible
> revisions ... no way, it still freezes.
> I noticed the nvidia uses the same pirq than my network card, but even
> when I remove it (the nvidia), my pc still fails.
>
> It seems really bound to X activity: I can compile kernels or do
> otherwise cpu-intensive tasks for hours without problems, but if I use
> galeon or xine or other X-intensive tasks, it freezes after a while
> (seconds or minutes or more).
>
> Does any of you have experience about such failures ? Can it be
> hardware-related ? BIOS-related ? I didn't change my hardware and it was
> working very well a month ago.
>
Specific problems I can think that might only affect graphics,
but not compiles or other CPU intensive tasks include:
1) Fastwrites enabled when the chips don't really support them.
2) Mapping registers cached (shouldn't have happened).
3) Bad resource arbitration in the motherboard bios (conflicts, overlaps).
4) Power regulation problems.
Mark.
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