[mythtv-users] NVIDIA 8774 freeze CRM:00030017

[Jason]

you mention that the onboard video isn't working. I would say that it
stands to reason that your board is dying and you are just seeing some
hardware instability.

Jason
The place where you made your stand never mattered,
only that you were there... and still on your feet



Lachlan McIntosh wrote:
> OK I regressed the driver back to 1.0-7184 - No Change.
>
> I have noticed:
>
> 1. It never happens if I'm actually just playing video.
> 2. It can happen if the OSD is up (video paused etc)
> 3. I can always make it happen by going up and down in a list in Myth.
> 4. If I leave Myth at the recorded programs list menu it will hard lock
> the box after about 5 minutes.
> 5. I can leave it for days at the main menu with no problems - may lock
> up if I actually select something.
> 6. The problem happens using both the Qt and OpenGL painter
>
>
> However I have had some success with a BIOS upgrade of the machine
> though, although this could have just been the resetting to BIOS
> defaults.
>
> I noticed that the AGP aperture settings had changed from the 32MB I had
> it set at to the default of 64MB. (my card is a 256Mb card and I have
> previously tried 128Mb and 256Mb with no luck)
>
> Since then the only frontend lock up I had was when I was doing manual
> Zoom to full motion video - and it wasn't a hard lockup
> (ctrl-alt-backspace still worked)
>
> If anyone else is having issues it may be worth resetting your BIOS to
> defaults and making sure that the AGP aperture is 64Mb
>
> Anyone else have some comments on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Lachlan
>
>
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Lachlan McIntosh
> Sent: Saturday, 30 September 2006 9:42 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] NVIDIA 8774 freeze CRM:00030017
>
>
> Well by the look of it it's not just ATI RS480.
>
> The top two lines of lspci on my system are:
>
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP Host
> Bridge 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP
> PCI/AGP Bridge
>
> (No I can't use the onboard video it's sh*t) -- maybe I will just take
> this opportunity to upgrade my mainboard - I never liked it.....
>
> But I'd like to fix it first.  I'll let you know the results.
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jeff volckaert
> Sent: Friday, 29 September 2006 11:39 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] NVIDIA 8774 freeze CRM:00030017
>
> I'm not sure if this applies to 6600s, but this might be of interest:
>
> Hard lockups seem to result when using an Nvidia 6200 with a motherboard
> based on the ATI RS480 chipset.
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=64682
>
> I am having the same issue with a 6200 on an HP box.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On 9/29/06, Lachlan McIntosh <lachlan at directions.com.au> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I have an Nvidia Fx6600 and have been experiencing hard lockups of
>>     
> late.
>   
>> I have version 8774 of the NVIDIA driver installed.  Does anyone else 
>> have this working?
>>
>> Does anyone know what the latest recommended version is?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Lachlan
>>
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