system freezing all the time

[dhague30]

i dont know how much will be able to be solved on this board, but what the hey.

 

ever since i went completely linux instead of half windows/linux partitions my computer has been being really slow, and many times it freezes hard (no mouse movement even). i tried reinstalling mandrake, this time putting fewer packages on that I didnt use. i even went back to 9.0 from 9.1. However, the problem persists. Any suggestions?

 

Note: i have a 1.2 Ghz processor, 256MB RAM, and a 128MB vid card, so hardware shouldnt be my problem i dont think.

 

thanks

dave

[Guest ndeb]

Please post the output of this command:

cat /proc/pci

[dhague30]

PCI devices found:

 Bus  0, device   0, function  0:

   Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 2).

     Master Capable.  Latency=32.

     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd3ffffff].

 Bus  0, device   0, function  1:

   IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 208).

     Master Capable.  Latency=16.

     I/O at 0xff00 [0xff0f].

 Bus  0, device   1, function  0:

   ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 0).

 Bus  0, device   1, function  1:

   Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 130).

     IRQ 3.

     Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11.

     I/O at 0xcc00 [0xccff].

     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffb000 [0xcfffbfff].

 Bus  0, device   1, function  3:

   USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2) (rev 7).

     IRQ 11.

     Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Max Lat=80.

     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffd000 [0xcfffdfff].

 Bus  0, device   1, function  2:

   USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 7).

     IRQ 11.

     Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Max Lat=80.

     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffc000 [0xcfffcfff].

 Bus  0, device   1, function  4:

   Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 2).

     IRQ 11.

     Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=24.

     I/O at 0xd000 [0xd0ff].

     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffe000 [0xcfffefff].

 Bus  0, device   1, function  6:

   Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 56k Winmodem (Smart Link HAMR5600 compatible) (rev 160).

     IRQ 3.

     Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11.

     I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff].

     I/O at 0xd400 [0xd47f].

 Bus  0, device   2, function  0:

   PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP (rev 0).

     Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=14.

 Bus  1, device   0, function  0:

   VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV1x (rev 163).

     IRQ 5.

     Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.

     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xce000000 [0xceffffff].

     Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc0000000 [0xc7ffffff].

     Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcdc80000 [0xcdcfffff].

 

sorry about the delay in the posting....

[Guest Phat Penguin]

I was having the same problem running Mdk 9.1 on an AMD 900, Asus board, 32mb TNT2 card with 384mb RAM ... while I have explored all the no cost options - dont want to admit I have bad RAM, CPU etc etc just yet.

 

My temporary fix is - I have disable all the Advanced Power Management options in BIOS.

 

Is your a nVidia card ?

 

I have the latest drivers from nVidia installed and have allocated memory in lilo.conf by adding the "mem=320M" option to allocates 64M memory to the graphics card - so far not a single lock up, but its early days. (2 day uptime so far where as I was getting a freeze daily)

 

This seems to be a generic problem (not isolated to Mandrake) and a visit to the nVidia board is worth it if running a nVidia based card.

 

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