[LAU] random system lockups, memtest clean, no idea... Magic sysrq?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Nov 19 20:20:59 EST 2008


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Loki Davison <loki.davison at gmail.com> wrote:
> What else can i test, it seems to occur gaming under windoze as well,
> but i'm not sure if random crashes are normal there. Is there tests
> for cpu/NIC? Or is it hd/ram and i just haven't seen issues in those
> tests. Could this be related to the RT kernel? Any way to get more
> debugging info?

Lockups under Windows are not normal, at least since Win2K.

Try resetting BIOS to defaults, and if that does not help, fiddle with
the BIOS memory settings.

I had a similar problem with an Athlon XP system that I eventually
worked around by changing some obscure RAM timing setting.

Lee



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