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#1 2009-04-13 00:00:54

Procyon
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Registered: 2008-05-07
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Hard crash unknown cause [?]

I had a hard crash twice in the last two days.

The first time happened while I was running pacman -Syu, I'm not sure where it froze, but it did have some issues with kernel26-firmware, with files being already in the filesystem.

During this crash I was using a custom kernel from .29, and I started using the regular one after the upgrade finished after rebooting.

The second time happened while I was playing Urbanterror.

The symptoms were the same: the last 100ms of sound is played on infinite loop, the screen is frozen, and mouse and keyboard do nothing. Not even the magic sysrq key works.

Anyone know what can cause this? Overheating? My graphics card is over 60 Celsius. I am not sure how hot the CPU is. The hard drives are fine.
Should I run a memtest, and how would I do this?

The first thing I'm going to try is underclocking my Nvidia by another 50 Mhz.

Last edited by Procyon (2009-04-27 19:46:00)

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#2 2009-04-13 02:40:50

firecat53
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Re: Hard crash unknown cause [?]

What graphic card/drivers are you using? With the nvidia 180.22 drivers and 2.6.29 and Geforce 7200 card, I would get periodic hard freezes. I've had to use the nvidia-beta drivers, which seems to have solved that problem.

Scott

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#3 2009-04-13 09:10:40

Procyon
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Re: Hard crash unknown cause [?]

@Scott: Thanks, I installed it right now and will reboot. I have been using .22 and .44 too on a Geforce 8500 GT.

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#4 2009-04-13 13:13:35

Procyon
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Re: Hard crash unknown cause [?]

It happened to me again with 185.19. It may have been because I messed up the nvidia.ko file by uninstalling nvidia after installing nvidia-beta (there should have been a conflicts, but I removed the file because of that).

When it crashed just now I had a flash movie playing in midori and opened a youtube video in firefox. So maybe the system tried to read the nvidia.ko file?

I don't remember what I was doing in the first crash except pacman in the background.

EDIT

A few days later, no crashes, so I think it's solved.

EDIT

I had two more crashes, but I noticed there is a new nvidia-beta.

EDIT

Another crash today. I noticed the GPU temperature got up to 100 C, so I will try underclocking again. There was also a new nvidia-beta module.

Last edited by Procyon (2009-05-09 17:26:33)

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