On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:18:17 -0500, Vaughn Treude wrote
> I've been trying to fix a problem I've been having on one of my
> systems. Maybe one of you have encountered something similar.
>
> When I first got this Soyo Dragon motherboard last year, I installed
> Mandrake
> 9.1 on the system and encountered a weird hang problem. At some
> point (not immediately) when the screen saver was running, the
> keyboard lights would start flashing and it would be completely
> locked. (Is this the usual sign of a kernel panic?) This problem
Just so you know, I run Mandrake on a Soyo Dragon with problems. I've run 9.1
in the past, but I'm running 9.2 now.
>...snip...
> Mar 6 04:06:41 vaughn kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown
> reason 3d.
> Mar 6 04:06:41 vaughn kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>
> Mar 6 04:06:41 vaughn kernel: Do you have a strange power saving
> mode enabled?
I presume NMI stands for Non-Maskable Interrupt which is usually an indication
of a very serious problem. So I wouldn't be suprised if this is what is
killing you...
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/res/irq/funcNMI-c.html
> Is there a way I could make the logs more verbose so I could get a
> handle on this problem? Another approach might be to run some sort
> of a cron job which would keep the system from ever being inactive
> for too long. That would allow me to test my hibernation theory.
Can't you just turn off the power-save modes in the bios?
Jeff
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