[NBLUG/talk] hardware or software error

[Walter Hansen]

My wifes windows box started doing that. I didn't figgure it out, but
instead built her a new one. It ran a AMDk6-233. It was constantly on for
several years before it started doing that. I don't know what help that
is, but I thought I'd state that you're not alone on this.


> I'm having trouble on a computer, every few minutes certain things stop
> for 5 seconds. Specifically, anything that needs the hard drive has to
> wait.
>
> /var/log/messages shows lines that correspond to it, like this:
>
> Dec 11 14:59:23 ctc kernel: hda: lost interrupt
>
> Each time it does this thing, it puts a line like that in the log. The
> machine is a fairly conventional old Pentium 2, 300MHz, 192MB ram, Tyan
> motherboard, 8MB ATI AGP video, SB16 ISA audio, tulip PCI network card,
> 40GB Maxtor hard drive. CDROM drive is on the secondary cable.
>
> However, it's fairly new to me, and has done it since I put it in use.
> It's running kernel 2.4.20
>
> This problem sometimes happens twice in a minute, sometimes only once in
> 15 minutes. The hard drive doesn't make any bad sounds or act bad in any
> way.
>
> Any suggestions where I should look? I am thinking the first thing to do
> is play around with PCI settings in the bios.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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