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WhiteT
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Location: Adelaide, Australia
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 Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:12 am Post subject: New Hardware, Stability Issues |
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Hi
I've been using gentoo for about 2-3 months now, and its been performing very well. Yesterday I bought a new motherboard and memory, and ever since installing these i've had severe system freezes during use (not imediatly, but perhaps 10-30 minutes into use).
My current hardware is:
Athlon XP 1800+
ASUS A7V600-X Mobo
512MB DDR400
Sparkle GeForce FX 5200 (cheap,cheap)
WD 120GB (Gentoo Drive)
WD 40GB (Old XP for times like this  )
Aureal Vortex 2 Sound Card (I would use onboard sound, but its not supported from what i've found)
LiteOn 52x32x52 CD-RW
Pioneer DVD-ROM
Intel Pro 10/100 NIC
After both freezes i've booted back up and done a cat of /var/log/messages, the last time it crashed i beleive this was related to these lines:
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Jun 30 22:18:49 alucard 0: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table
Jun 30 22:18:50 alucard atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
Jun 30 22:18:50 alucard atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
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Note: at the time i was running XCDRoast, XMMS, Gaim and Gnome (+ misc stuff)
also i've seen this pop up a bit within messages
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vortex: IRQ fifo error
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I've compiled support for the vortex into the kernel, and it works fine (mixes everything aswell). I couldn't, however, find support for either of my chipsets on the mobo (KT600 and VT8237).. im not sure how much of an issue this is, but i compiled in the VIA 82CXXX Chipset support (that seemed to make the HDD run with DMA enabled).
I've tried plain 2.6.6, 2.6.7 and gentoo-dev-sources kernels, they all seem to cause the same issues.
Any Ideas? Need Any Info? let me know ^_^
Cheers!
- James |
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Mattwolf7
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| Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| Can you list the old hardware? |
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WhiteT
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Location: Adelaide, Australia
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| Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| Mattwolf7 wrote: | | Can you list the old hardware? |
My old hardware was:
Epox 8KTA3L+ Mobo
320MB SD-RAM
Onboard Sound (VIA 82C686B Southbridge)
minus Vortex 2 |
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loxety
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Joined: 25 May 2004
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Location: Washington D.C.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| I'd suggest setting your agp speed to 2x or 4x, turning off sidebanding and agp control in the BIOS. |
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UTgamer
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Location: Troisdorf (Köln) Deutschland
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: New Hardware, Stability Issues |
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| WhiteT wrote: | ... | Code: |
vortex: IRQ fifo error |
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I've compiled support for the vortex into the kernel, and it works fine (mixes everything aswell).
- James |
I know Vortex as high speed RAID-HW, but it sounds like you mean an audio-card.
Move this card into an different motherboard-slot. Is it the RAID-Controller, then move it next to the AGP-slot.
Is it a sound card, move it into the 2 outer side slots.
If the posting from loxety didn't help, will it be possible that you have an IRQ conflict.
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AMD Phenom II x4 >> CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10 -O2 -mmmx -msse3 -mfpmath=sse,387 -pipe -ffast-math" is stable and here in use.
Did Intel produce at any time bugfree HW?
http://www.urbanmyth.org/microcode/
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91748 |
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loxety
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| I have been having some stablility issues with my A7V600 non-x updated the bios from 1005 that it was shipped with to 1006 and its super stable now. |
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