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

[Loki Davison]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> 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
>


Thanks for the hint Lee, did the error that was fixed with ram timings
for you come up in any mem tester? memtest86+? Should i just frob the
knobs with regards to timings ? ;)

Loki