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Frequent crashes on dual Xeon

Caern Westerburg
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Join date: 7 Jan 2004
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04-03-2004 21:24
I'm running WinXP on a dual Xeon box with an Iwill DP533 motherboard and a Ti4600 video card. Periodically the system will lock up solid, necessitating a manual reset. I've filed crash reports on all of these. Second Life is the only app which causes these lockups.

I believe (hope) I'm running the latest motherboard and NVidia drivers.

I'm wondering if a) anyone else has seen this in a dual-proc configuration, and/or b) if anything leaps out of the crash dumps over in LindenLand.

Thanks!
Moleculor Satyr
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Join date: 5 Jan 2004
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04-03-2004 21:38
How's your cooling?
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Raven Zebrastripe
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04-04-2004 19:38
Caern-


If you do a search on the tech issues forum I believe someone else had this problem and resolved it by both updating their BIOS and dropping their AGP Aperture to below 256.

Raven
Caern Westerburg
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04-04-2004 23:26
At first I thought it was cooling; now I'm thinking not. This thing has three case fans running full tilt. Operating with the side off doesn't help. Crashes have become much more frequent with 1.3.

BIOS is the latest from Iwill for the DP533 mobo - 6.6.2003. I just checked.

I'll try dropping the aperture.

If anyone in Linden Labs sees anything in my crash reports, please let me know.
Caern Westerburg
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04-06-2004 23:15
I've tried turning off AGP. Horrifyingly enough this had no effect whatsoever on frame rate, but I haven't crashed since, even at that mad party down in Hawthorne. Well, ok, the client crashed, but my system didn't - now there's a first! And the client didn't even crash, it just quit updating but the menues were still active so I was able to quit out of it. Annoying but it sure beats a frozen machine.

Here's hoping.