Messages in this thread | | | From | "Brad " <> | Subject | irq, DMA, errors | Date | Mon, 18 May 1998 22:10:53 +0200 |
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<META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>ok heres the story, i have 3 machines here, i run slackware 3.3, 1 out of 3 of the machines works perfectly.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>that one machine is actually an acer aspire.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>on the one other machine, i had slackware installed, up and running perfectly, no probs whatso ever,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>until one day i got a whole bunch off errors.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>i couldnt get them exact, but here are a few examples</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>end_request I/O .......etc</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>DMA failiure etc...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>{Drive Seek Not Ready}</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>hda request timeout </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>irq failure</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>but its more like pages of this crap</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>cant exactly type it all.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>when i first got this problem i was using slackware 3.2</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>i then removed that and reinstalled slackware 3.3, the installation was ok, no probs, then first time i booted up, it froze and gave me all the error messages. then the next time i tried reinstalling it stuffed on the installation this time, with the same errors.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I thought it mightve been my network card or sound card so i tried removing all the non essential hardware and even putting in another hard drive. and it still did the same, ive tried playing with EVERYTHING in the bios, changing the hard drive mode from LBA to NORMAL</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>ive tried creating the partitions in msdos (by the way ms windows works no probs on the same machine)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>ive tried new boot disks, basically all i could think of,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>then i thought it may be my motherboard,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>but then when i tried installing it on another of my machine, i have the exact same problems, and this machine was running redhat perfectly on it before,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>any ideas would be greatly appreciated cause im really stuck here,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Brad</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>bradp@global.co.za</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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