Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [2.420] Unexplained repeatable Oops | Date | Tue, 13 May 2003 15:49:58 +1000 |
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On Tue, 13 May 2003 15:40, DevilKin wrote: > On Sunday 11 May 2003 23:39, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Mon, 12 May 2003 04:52, DevilKin-LKML wrote: > > > On my main machine at home I have encountered since this morning an > > > Oops that never happened before. It happened when I was playing a game > > > of Diablo II through Winex (yes, with the Nvidia modules loaded and > > > stuff loaded from VMWare). This oops I didn't bother to capture, since > > > I know that oops'es from a tainted kernel are not accepted. > > > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super > > > South] (rev 40) Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device a702 > > > Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 > > > Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 > > > > Good old VIA chipset. I solved a similar problem by underclocking a cpu > > on a similar chipset :-( > > > > Try the mprime client stress test to ensure your hardware is ok. > > www.mersenne.org > > I wasn't able to get this thing working, so I tried cpuburn and seti@home > instead. Both ran my cpu up to around 70 degrees C, and everything was > still working perfectly. > > All fans were spinning nicely along, including the vidcard fan. > > After this, I let things cool down, ran winex+diablo2 and the system > crashed in under 20 minutes. > > To make sure it wasn't hardware related I ran 3dMark 2003 under windows and > well... it resulted in a blue screen after 10 minutes of running this quite > intensive test. So I suppose something is wrong with my AGP card. > > Strange thing is that I actually get crashes, and not video problems as I > would expect... > > I've already tried turning of AGP Fast Writes, and have tuned down the AGP > write speed from 4x to 2x (lowest I can put it). > > Any other ideas?
mprime will pick up more subtle things than cpuburn will. It's not purely a temperature of the cpu issue. It may be the bus. Try underclocking your bus/cpu. I run a P3 933 (133x7) at 868 (124x7) and all problems go away. The same cpu works fine overclocked on a different motherboard.
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