From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:17:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:17:20 -0500 Received: from ip212-226-163-33.adsl.kpnqwest.fi ([212.226.163.33]:36790 "HELO mail.ftlight.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:17:12 -0500 Message-ID: <3CA074D5.5080902@ftlight.net> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:17:09 +0200 From: Mattias Nordstrom Organization: ftlight.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Asus A7V133 BIOS Update fixed kernel crash Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I just thought I should share this with the kernel developer community. When I was running my system (AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with Asus A7V133-C) with the default BIOS on the motherboard (1007) I experienced several problems when trying to run programs. Most of them either Segfaulted or caused a bus error. The crashes where usually related to situations where a program tried to display an animation or a video. Sometimes the system completely froze. I tried to compile the kernel with all kinds of different options, tried with and without athlon optimization but nothing seemed to work. I thought it might have been related to the "Athlon/AGP bug", but the solutions to fix the bug did not work for my system. Then one day I happened to check Asus homepage and found a BIOS update for my motherboard. I flashed my BIOS with the new software (1008) and now I haven't had any problems. The BIOS came out 8.3.2002, so it's quite new. Anyone happen to know what changes where made in the new BIOS which solved my problem? -- Mattias Nordström matta@ftlight.net -www.ftlight.net-