[NBLUG/talk] The dreaded random crashes!!!

Lincoln Peters sampln at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 8 17:10:25 PST 2007


On Thursday 08 February 2007 16:16, Bob Blick wrote:
> Have you run memtest86 overnight yet? Pretty much all the times I've ever
> had random lockups it's been bad memory.

I have run memtest86, but not overnight.  I'll try running it overnight and 
get back to you.

>
> Also, is this the same machine you mentioned the other day running with
> all the PCI slots filled? You could have too much loading on the PCI bus
> and get data errors randomly that way. If memtest86 runs all night with no
> errors, that'd be the next place I'd look.

Yes, it's the same computer.  I'll look into that if memtest86 doesn't turn up 
anything.

In case it helps, here's the output of "lspci" on it, with all lines referring 
to built-in devices removed:

00:0a.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20621 (FastTrak S150 
SX4/FastTrak SX4000 lite) (rev 01)
00:0b.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 02)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit 
Ethernet (rev 10)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 
64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] 
Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
00:0f.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] 
(rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] 
(Secondary) (rev 01)

By the way, I'm not using the second RAID bus controller (the one with the 
Silicon Image chip) at the moment, so if it might be causing problems, I 
could yank it out.


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Lincoln Peters		<sampln at sbcglobal.net>

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