Re: ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard: comments?
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:40:24PM +0200, Francisco Gimeno wrote:
> maybe I'm the only one having a lot of stability problems. My computer get
> crashes about 2 times/day when using it for Desktop. I have discovered
> several problems when running in "server" mode.
>
> I'm running a "model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
> 4200+" with 4 GB RAM, a 6600GT NVidia. The main board is the ASUS A8N-SLI
> Deluxe edition.
>
> My "dmesg" output is always filled with "Oops" and "segmentation faults".
>
> I have tested every kernel from 2.6.8. No way.
>
> In 32 bits mode it works perfectly, without any kind of failure.
>
> Problems occur with either GPL and non-GPL nvidia graphic driver.
>
> The only special device I have it's a BT878 card.
> 0000:05:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> Capture (rev 11)
> 0000:05:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
> (rev 11)
Overloaded or crappy power supply? Low quality ram?
> OOPS examples:
> -------------------------
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000004ce68944 RIP:
> <ffffffff8016cc8a>{vfs_read+300}
> PGD 127ba8067 PUD 1209df067 PMD 0
> Oops: 0002 [1] SMP
> CPU 1
> Modules linked in: nvidia xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables
> binfmt_misc button ac battery ipv6 xfrm_user xfrm4_tunnel ipcomp esp4 ah4
> deflate zlib_deflate twofish serpent aes blowfish des sha256 sha1 crypto_null
> af_key sk98lin md_mod dm_mod it87 hwmon_vid eeprom i2c_isa sr_mod sbp2
> ide_generic bt878 tuner tvaudio snd_intel8x0 msp3400 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_ac97_bus bttv video_buf firmware_class compat_ioctl32 snd_bt87x
> snd_mpu401 i2c_algo_bit snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_mpu401_uart v4l2_common
> analog psmouse snd_pcm i2c_nforce2 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device btcx_risc
> ir_common snd_timer snd_page_alloc parport_pc parport snd serio_raw soundcore
> eth1394 tveeprom i2c_core videodev gameport pcspkr evdev ext3 jbd mbcache
> ide_cd cdrom ide_disk sd_mod sata_nv skge sata_sil libata ohci1394 ieee1394
> scsi_mod forcedeth generic amd74xx ide_core ehci_hcd ohci_hcd thermal
> processor fan
> Pid: 7873, comm: artsd Tainted: P 2.6.16-1-amd64-k8-smp #2
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8016cc8a>] <ffffffff8016cc8a>{vfs_read+300}
> RSP: 0018:ffff810127b99f18 EFLAGS: 00010246
> RAX: ffff81013e7da950 RBX: ffff81013fbe33c0 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff81013e7da758
> RBP: 0000000000000020 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8101315ab8c0
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000001
> R13: ffff81013dee4a78 R14: 0000000000000020 R15: 00007fffffbf5930
> FS: 00002b9eb58b1e50(0000) GS:ffff81013fc909c0(0000) knlGS:00000000f6a67bb0
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 000000004ce68944 CR3: 0000000127b55000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> Process artsd (pid: 7873, threadinfo ffff810127b98000, task ffff81013f6c20c0)
Well artsd is related to kde/sound so maybe there is a problem there.
What happens if you don't run kde or disable sound?
> Stack: ffff8101315ab8c0 0000000000000020 fffffffffffffff7 00007fffffbf5880
> 000000000059ed60 ffffffff8016d686 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> 0000000044318c87 00000000005a0c00
> Call Trace: <ffffffff8016d686>{sys_read+69}
> <ffffffff8010a846>{system_call+126}
>
> Code: 31 d2 44 89 e6 4c 89 ef e8 b8 32 02 00 65 48 8b 04 25 00 00
> RIP <ffffffff8016cc8a>{vfs_read+300} RSP <ffff810127b99f18>
> CR2: 000000004ce68944
Len Sorensen
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