From: DevilKin <devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@arnor.net>
Subject: Re: [2.420] Unexplained repeatable Oops
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 07:40:38 +0200
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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?

Jan
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