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    SubjectRe: Probable PCIE prob
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    Am Sonntag, den 29.04.2007, 13:54 +0200 schrieb Andi Kleen:
    > Syren Baran <sbaran@gmx.de> writes:
    >
    > > i got a problem with the combination of an Asrock AM2NF4G-SATA2
    > > mainboard with a Radeon X1900 (chip 1002,724b) graphics
    > > card. /i386/pci/mmconfig.c reports a buggy bios (e0000000 is not
    > > E820-reserved).
    >
    > This message is harmless and likely unrelated.
    Maybe, but thats the only clue i can get from the kernel.
    >
    > System crashes only happen when viewing films (neither
    > > xine nor mplayer run with root privileges) and independent of video
    > > drivers (framebuffer, vesa and fglrx). Logs dont show any anomalies
    > > before crashing. Anybody got a clue?
    >
    > Sounds like some sort of hardware problem. Maybe the power supply
    > is not up to the task?
    Definatly not, already replaced that with a 550W power supply.
    > Or the board could be broken.
    Most likely not. I recently actually installed Windows XP to check.
    Granted, just watching one film may not have been long enough to trigger
    this effect (the crashes usually take place after 1/2 an hour, though
    times can vary largely).
    > Also always
    > worth updating the BIOS.
    Did that long before posting. Changing the PCIE frequency in the BIOS
    didnt help either.
    >
    > -Andi

    Syren

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