Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miklos Szeredi) | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:18:13 +0200 (MEST) | Subject | Re: VIA Ezra CentaurHauls |
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> First board worked perfectly until I have started (as a regular user) > RealPlayer 8. After that the box became unstable, and other applications > (mozilla, mplayer, gcc) started to crash randomly with SEGV. However I > have not seen a kernel crash.
I had very similar experiences with the same CPU: VIA Ezra Stepping 8 (see: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=104262312700003&r=1&w=2). And that was not with an EPIA, but an ASUS CUV4X-C MB.
I had the processor replaced, because I narrowed the problem down to that, but it didn't help.
My feeling is ever stronger as I see these posts, that it is really this modell that is buggy. If that is true, then VIA should either replace these CPUs with a non-buggy one, or find a workaround for whatever operating systems are affected.
BTW, I could reliably cure this broblem by turning off the L2 cache in BIOS. Maybe it is some memory interaction problem, but I'm not an expert on this subject.
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