[Openchrome-users] Fw: serious problem: possible memory corruption

Xavier Bachelot xavier
Tue Apr 8 12:26:09 PDT 2008


Hindrik Hettema wrote:
> This looks more like the "VIA board deadlock" problem analyzed
> thoroughly amongst others at the VIA-ARENA forum. DMA-wise something
> seems wrong with these VIA-boards (bot J7F2 and J7F4). Some people blame
> the temperature, but not so.
> 
> I myself had one "hang" with not even X-windows running, but that is
> very rare. Many interactions on X increase the chance.
> 
> I gave up, as no remedy except disabling totally DMA seemed to help (and
> thinking about changing the computer already for a very long time now).
> 
> Hindrik
> 
Another suspect could be the longhaul power-saving module.

X.





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