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Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ?

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On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:59:36 UTC, "Dariusz Piatkowski" 
<dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> wrote:

> Ever since my upgrade to the '21st century computing' (lol - a move from an AMD 
> Barton to Phenom X4 setup) I have been experiencing an odd freeze here and 
> there. These are not hard locks, rather the WPS stops responding, mouse cursor 
> is still OK, CPU monitor (v 1.17) chugs along, but the WPS interface seems to 
> stop working. This is always brought on by something a given application has 
> attempted to do, once such app is AVXCAT, which I would love to use. The 2nd on 
> is the latest PMView install program (WPI based). Both will soft-lock the WPS, 
> only CAD helps.
> 
> One thing I have been able to narrow this down to is the utilization of the 4 
> cores...if I shut-off the 3 remaining cores (using setproc utility) I am able to
> breeze through these processes.


This sounds very similar to what happens on my new Phenom X4 system.
In my case, it's SeaMonkey generally that causes the lockup, although
whether or not that's simply because it's the program I've been using
most often on that system or not, I don't know.  For me it seems to be
a pretty hard lockup in that nothing responds and I need to reboot.

For me, too, the "fix" is to either disable all but the first core in
the BIOS, or disable SMP.  (If I leave two cores running, the problem
happens less often than it does with four, but still happens.)

I've tried with both OS2APIC.PSD and ACPI.PSD, both exhibit the exact
same behaviour here.

Interestingly, however, I've observed the SAME behaviour under Windows XP
on the same box.  In this case, running on two cores instead of four 
virtually eliminates the problem under Windows, although I have seen it 
at least once.

This has led me to suspect a hardware problem rather than an OS one.
OTOH, if you have the same issue, maybe I'm wrong about that.

-- 
Alex Taylor
Fukushima, Japan
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Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-11-24 14:59 +0000
  Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2011-11-24 15:36 +0000
    Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-11-25 15:45 +0000
      Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com> - 2011-11-27 19:17 +0000
        Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> - 2011-11-28 07:42 -0500
  Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? "Lars Erdmann" <lars.erdmann@arcor.de> - 2011-11-24 17:33 +0100
    Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? Steve Wendt <spamsux@forgetit.org> - 2011-11-24 11:45 -0800
    Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-11-25 16:01 +0000
  Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? "Alex Taylor" <mail.me@reply.to.address> - 2011-11-25 06:36 -0600
    Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-11-25 16:08 +0000
  Re: Fixpak file mapping - how to get a good DEBUG/TRACE/DUMP ? "Dariusz Piatkowski" <dariusz@_NO-SPAM_mnsi.net> - 2011-11-25 15:38 +0000

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