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Robert P. Thille wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Dean A. Roman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Robert,
If it's an overheat problem, you should see an entry in the bios log
about the chip temperature.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Not sure where to find the bios logs... I guess I could run a continuous
output command which logs the temps to another machine. Not sure what
that'd be on linux.
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The bios logs are usually found when you first boot up and hit F2 or
Del. One of the selections says something like log or logs. I'm not
sure where to find it on your board. But things like overheat
alarms/alerts are posted to it. Not ALL bios' seem to have it, but
most of the new ones do.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Sounds more like a video card driver issue to me.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Yeah, I was certain that going to init 3 and just using VNC for my
graphics would solve the issue, but it was still dead after a couple of
days.
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Do you have any peripherals connected to it? I had a similiar problem
on a Supermicro board, but it turned out to be my backup software. It
would run fine for about a week then just die. I stopped the backup
software and everything was fine.<br>
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It's a shotgun approach, but you might try shutting down services until
you get to the one that's causing the issue.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Have you checked out the VIA download site(from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://viaembedded.com">http://viaembedded.com</a>)
to see if any of the drivers could help...
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/download-center/">http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/download-center/</a>
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I went there to get the drivers and ended up here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/">http://washington.kelkoo.net/epia/</a>
That helped with getting the full resolution support and recognition of
the various features, but didn't seem to affect the hangs at all...
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<pre wrap="">Also, check out the VIA Arena forums site... <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.viaarena.com/">http://www.viaarena.com/</a>
to ask questions specific to your board.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I've searched there for anyone reporting anything like what I'm seeing,
but didn't find anything. I suppose I can try posting myself and see
what replies I get.
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VIA actually monitors the forum from time to time and I have had VIA
employees respond to my questions. That's more than I can say for
there phone support <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span><br>
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<pre wrap="">Does /var/log/messages tell you anything?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Nope, it's a hard-lockup with nothing recorded anywhere I can find.
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Sounds definately like a kernel interfacing with some hardware issue.<br>
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Is the BIOS up to date?<br>
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Thanks,
Robert
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Good luck!<br>
---Dean.<br>
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Dean A. Roman
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