Hello,
Since i installed my pv-155 and the bttv my server reboots randomly ,
Hardware specs
km266
amd 1700 xp
pv-155
sw
Linux 2.6.9-42.0.8
Centos 4.3
zm 1.22.3
Any Ideas
Rebooting Machine
I personaly don't know anything speciffic about your hardware, so if there is a stability issue with your pv-155, hopefully somebody else will speak up.
Random lockups are the worst to troubleshoot. As soon as you can narrow it down to an application or a piece of hardware, the better.
The usual suspects are (and in no particular order) Ram, Power and Whatever you just put in your machine.
Faulty Ram can be determined with a few runs of MEMTEST. Find it as an option on many linux distros (even knoppix if you have one of those laying around). Check this, especially if you recently added/removed memory.
Dirty power can cause odd problems and lockups (albeit, they are rare) . If you just moved to a new power source, it could be bad. If you have something else plugged into the same source (Friend of mine couldn't figure out what was going on with his power until he learned his mini fridge was pulling juice from the same circuit.)... Lastly, if your powersupply is old... all of these could cause problems.
And lastly, the item you just added. You said you installed a PV-155... install anything else? Remove these items one at a time and try to reproduce the lockup for a few hours. If you can't watch your computer for that long, eject the CD tray. If it locks up and reboots, the reset will pull in the tray. (simple, yet effective reboot notifier.)
Good luck on finding your problem.
--Pathway
Random lockups are the worst to troubleshoot. As soon as you can narrow it down to an application or a piece of hardware, the better.
The usual suspects are (and in no particular order) Ram, Power and Whatever you just put in your machine.
Faulty Ram can be determined with a few runs of MEMTEST. Find it as an option on many linux distros (even knoppix if you have one of those laying around). Check this, especially if you recently added/removed memory.
Dirty power can cause odd problems and lockups (albeit, they are rare) . If you just moved to a new power source, it could be bad. If you have something else plugged into the same source (Friend of mine couldn't figure out what was going on with his power until he learned his mini fridge was pulling juice from the same circuit.)... Lastly, if your powersupply is old... all of these could cause problems.
And lastly, the item you just added. You said you installed a PV-155... install anything else? Remove these items one at a time and try to reproduce the lockup for a few hours. If you can't watch your computer for that long, eject the CD tray. If it locks up and reboots, the reset will pull in the tray. (simple, yet effective reboot notifier.)
Good luck on finding your problem.
--Pathway
bttv and Via Chipsets
Hello
ok the problem is the bttv module and the via chipset.
does anybody have a solution for this
ok the problem is the bttv module and the via chipset.
does anybody have a solution for this
Hello again.
I hope somebody can get you a more definite answer, but here's what a little searching came up with.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/5/4/111
It sounds like this guy is having the same problems you are having, but with the kt133 chipset. Also, it sounds like it's a bug with the chipset, and not much can be done to resolve it...
He suggests turning of your harddrives DMA (which reduces performance).... but ymmv.
Good luck.
--Pathway
I hope somebody can get you a more definite answer, but here's what a little searching came up with.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/5/4/111
It sounds like this guy is having the same problems you are having, but with the kt133 chipset. Also, it sounds like it's a bug with the chipset, and not much can be done to resolve it...
He suggests turning of your harddrives DMA (which reduces performance).... but ymmv.
Good luck.
--Pathway