Re: Probable PCIE prob

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Apr 29 2007 - 06:57:45 EST

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Syren Baran <sbaran@xxxxxx> writes:

> i got a problem with the combination of an Asrock AM2NF4G-SATA2
> mainboard with a Radeon X1900 (chip 1002,724b) graphics
> card. /i386/pci/mmconfig.c reports a buggy bios (e0000000 is not
> E820-reserved).

This message is harmless and likely unrelated.

System crashes only happen when viewing films (neither
> xine nor mplayer run with root privileges) and independent of video
> drivers (framebuffer, vesa and fglrx). Logs dont show any anomalies
> before crashing. Anybody got a clue?

Sounds like some sort of hardware problem. Maybe the power supply
is not up to the task? Or the board could be broken. Also always
worth updating the BIOS.

-Andi
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