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Re: Weird lockups



How about power? Is the power supply on it's way out? or are there
spikes/drops on the lines.

--rdp


On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Matthew R. Pavlovich wrote:

> I have been having weird lock ups w/ my PC164, which has a 21164PC 500Mhz
> processor.  These are *hard* locks.  Sysreq won't respond.  There is no
> method to when the locks happen, or why.  I have beeen unable to track it
> down exactly, but here is what I have done-
> 
> *First I thought it was bad memory, but then I did a build of X overnight
> and nothing locked.. along w/ X, I re-built a large portion of the base
> system.  So, gcc compiling has been pretty much eliminated as a
> candidate for the lockup.
> 
> *My next suspect was IDE interface.  A few times it hard locked while
> accessing the IDE devices (1 hdd, 1 cd).  The onboard controller is the
> CMD646 (kernel driver avail).  I tried kernels w/ and w/o CMD646 compiled
> in.  I then disconnected all the IDE devices, and did not track it down.
> 
> *Next I thought it was the SCSI controller.  NCR53c875.  I ruled that out,
> by modularizing it, and using an IDE disk.  Locked up w/o SCSI controller
> initialized.
> 
> *I am now left w/ the video card.  It is a Matrox PCI G200.  The system
> has often locked up while in X, but not always.  The system will not boot
> if fbdev support is compiled in monolithically.  
> 
> Anyone with a similar system experience anything like this?  Anyone have
> thoughts on settings for the G200 in X?
> 
> Regards,
> Matthew R. Pavlovich
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Rich Payne
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