03-05-2004 03:12
I run SL on a dual Xeon PC with an NVidia Ti 5800 video accelerator. I've been having frequent bus lockup crashes. These are hard hangs: frozen screen & cursor, steady tone from the sound card.

I had originally thought this was due to the video chip overheating, but this now seems to have been only coincidentally related to room temperature. Figuring that trying new drivers was far easier than installing water cooling, and cost little, I installed the leaked 56.55 NVidia drivers.

Problem solved. No more crashes. Those who are experiencing bus lockups on hyperthreaded machines might want to Google for these drivers.