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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