[Sussex] Re: Sussex Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

Mon Jan 19 16:18:29 UTC 2004

Hi, thanks for your assistance Geoff, it was a mistake on my part. I
realised that this was the processor/motherboard combination that ensisted I
was running a 1250MHz instead of a 2000+ and whenever I set it to 2000+ in
BIOS it threw up loads of blue screens in windows.
    I went to turn it on after one of its freezes and the computer didn't do
anything, turned it off and on again and noticed it was seeing the processor
as 1250Mhz again, that triggered this line of thought. So I left it on
1250Mhz, reinstalled linux to undo all the problems I probably inflicted on
it and it has run for an afternoon only locking up twice. So it seems fine.
    Also, the first time I got into KDE after the changes, after a similar
amount of time as one of my freezes I got a warning: CPU overload, or
something like that, so that must have been it. The freezes must be linux'
equivalent of a BSoD.
    Thanks for your help once again, I'm sure I'll be needing it soon lol.

Sam.
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> From: "Sam \(Shuriken1\)" <shuriken1 at nuukiemail.com>
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> Hi, thanks for your response Geoff. I'm sorry about the lack of
information,
> but this truly is new to me, don't know anything yet. I tried both the
> Ctrl+Alt+F# and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace combinations, both of which did nothing
> in one of my 'freezes'.
> I read on a forum about someone with a similar problem, he replaced the
> keyboard and that stopped his freezes, unfortunately it hasn't stopped
mine.
> Hope this means something to you,
>
> Sam.
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> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:09:26 +0000
> From: Geoff Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Re: Sussex Digest, Vol 17, Issue 7
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> On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 13:00, Sam (Shuriken1) wrote:
> > Hi, thanks for your response Geoff.
>
> That's what we're here for.
>
> > I'm sorry about the lack of information,
> > but this truly is new to me, don't know anything yet. I tried both the
> > Ctrl+Alt+F# and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace combinations, both of which did
nothing
> > in one of my 'freezes'.
>
> OK, this suggests that the X is in a bad enough state to not be
> responding to input.
>
> There could be a few things that cause that, but we'll get to that
> later.
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1. When your machine freezes do the Caps Lock, Num Lock and Scroll Lock
> lights flash on your keyboard?
> 2. Do you have another machine with which you can get network access to
> the machine with the problem?
>
> > I read on a forum about someone with a similar problem, he replaced the
> > keyboard and that stopped his freezes, unfortunately it hasn't stopped
mine.
> > Hope this means something to you,
>
> It sounds like his keyboard was doing something weird that caused the
> device driver to crash or hang X.  Your problem may be similar, but
> looking at your hardware specs I'd be looking at the graphics chipset
> before anything else.
>
> A quick search on Google for your motherboard turned up this:
>
>
> ================================
>
> XFree86 4.x series
>
> If you are using XFree86 4.x, then you may find that the auto-configure
> utility detects the hardware incorrectly. You will then need to manually
> edit the XF86Config-4 file with a commandline editor such as mc
> (Midnight Commander). You may also find the next few lines from my
> XF86Config-4 file handy
>
> Section "Device"
>
> Identifier "SiS 630"        # You
> name this whatever you want
>
> Driver "sis"
>
> Vendorname "SiS 630"        # You
> name this whatever you want
>
> Videoram 32768              # RAM
> allocated to VGA in BIOS
>
> Option "AGPMODE" "4"
>
> Option "Accel"              #
> Replace with "noaccel" to disable
>
> Option "Turboqueue"
>
> Option "FastVram"
>
> Option "SetMclk" "133 MHZ"  # System
> RAM speed (100 or 133 MHz)
>
> Option "DacSpeed" "150 MHZ"
>
> Option "DPMS"               # If
> your monitor supports this
>
> Boardname "SiS 630"
> EndSection
>
>
> ================================
>
> .... I took that from this FAQ about your motherboard:
>
> http://radel.inet.net.nz/m810lmr.html
>
>
> It's well worth a read with regard to other issues with this motherboard
> as well.
>
> --
> Geoff Teale
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