Subj : Re: What's wrong with my comp?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Pandora Xero
Date : Mon Aug 30 2004 06:49 pm


Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Pandora Xero enlightened us with:
> > Personally, i don't mind running without dma, but not having a GUI
can
> > be an inconvenience at times. I'm going to see if changing bios
> > settings or using a different graphics card helps. any advice would
> > help a lot
>
> Advice: tell us your hardware, your distribution(s), software,
> versions of all software installed, and other information that is
> actually *useful*.
>
> You talk about being able to boot without DMA. You don't tell us what
> happens if you enable DMA. You also don't tell us *what* DMA you're
> talking about. Harddisk? Sound card? Video card? Something else?
>
> Sybren
> --
> The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
> capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
> safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

sorry I didn't give enough detail. by DMA I'm referring to Hard drive
DMA.

symptoms of my problem are:
Random freeze when loading Linux or Windows.
Frequent freezing in GUI in Linux
occasional freezing in MS Windows GUI
Even Memtest freezes sometimes
linux gives me "psmouse.c - bad data from KBC - timeout bad parity"
Windows Gives me something about not being able to find NTOSKRNL
occasionally

My hardware is:
AMD Duron 1.3
1152 MB DDR266 RAM
Radeon 9100 graphics card
Maxtor 80GB 5400RPM EIDE HDD
WD 160GB 7200RPM EIDE HDD
ASUS A7V600-X motherboard
VIA KT600 North bridge
VIA VT8237 South Bridge
Thats about all the important info i can think of.
My BIOS has options to control the UDMA mode of the hard drives. I have
a choice of 0-6, and PIO modes 0-4 (separate selection).
once again, any help is appreciated
--Pandora Xero

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