From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 00:06:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E5D16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:06:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sun13.bham.ac.uk (sun13.bham.ac.uk [147.188.128.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AB043D31 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:06:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from calculus@softhome.net) Received: from [147.188.128.127] (helo=bham.ac.uk) by sun13.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1CrmJf-0003iu-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:06:19 +0000 Received: from sci-fs1.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.118.71]) by bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1CrmJf-0006QP-P7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:06:19 +0000 Received: from SPECULUSHX1THE not authenticated [147.188.140.33] Novell NetWare; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:06:19 +0000 Message-ID: <002801c4ff4d$0ad34880$0501a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE> From: "cali" To: Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:06:22 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-BHAM-CUBE-wlist: LOCAL sci-fs1.bham.ac.uk X-BHAM-CUBE-processed: yes Subject: My computer keeps crashing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:06:21 -0000 If this is the wrong mailing list, I apologise, suggestions to a more appropriate mailing list will be appreciated. Reasonably recently I upgraded my hardware to the following: Soltek SL-NV400-64 "Purple Ray" (Socket A) Motherboard AMD Athlon "Barton" XP3200+ 400FSB (Socket A) CPU - OEM Asus DRW-0402P DVD-R/RW - Retail Adata 512MB DDR PC3200 CAS 2.5 Adata 512MB DDR PC3200 CAS 2.5 Zalman Flower CNPS6000-Cu Silent Socket A CPU Cooler - Antec Sonata Piano Black Quiet Case - 380W TruePower Silent PSU Hyundai ImageQuest Q995 19'' Perfectly Flat CRT Monitor - Black/Silver Geforce FX 5200 graphics card IBM 60GB HD Western Digital 160GB HD Sometimes when I run CPU intensive applications the system will crash at seemingly unpredictable times, I have to hard reset the machine as it is completely unresponsive, I was running an experiment in console mode and it showed me the kernel panic: kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode instruction pointer = 0xed7c:0x0 stack pointer = 0x10:0xe529ed88 frame pointer = 0x10:0x0 code segment = base 0xcc084, limit 0xaaec, type 0x0 = DPL 0, pres 0, def32 0, gran 0 processor eflags = IOPL = 0 current process = 533 (maximumcut) trap number = 9 panic: general protection fault Uptime: 5m27s and another time: kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode instruction pointer = 0x9d7c:0x0 stack pointer = 0x10:0xe7509d88 frame pointer = 0x10:0x0 code segment = base 0x8c084, limit 0x74ec, type 0x0 = DPL 0, pres 0, def 32 0, gran 0 processor eflags = IOPL = 0 currrentprocess = 593 (maximumcut) trap number = 9 panic: general protection fault Uptime: 16m7s I copied this manually so hopefully I copied it correctly. I think the problem might be due to my bios settings running the CPU to fast although I do not think I am overclocking it. This might explain the strange timing of the problem, maybe the motherboard is unstable. here is my dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #5: Thu Jan 13 12:34:13 GMT 2005 XXXXXX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC mptable_probe: MP Config Table has bad signature: Mous ACPI APIC Table: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ (2205.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x6a0 Stepping = 0 Features=0x383fbff AMD Features=0xc0400000 real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1036918784 (988 MB) ioapic0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard npx0: [FAST] npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0 cpu0: on acpi0 acpi_tz0: on acpi0 acpi_button0: on acpi0 pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 pci0: at device 0.1 (no driver attached) pci0: at device 0.2 (no driver attached) pci0: at device 0.3 (no driver attached) pci0: at device 0.4 (no driver attached) pci0: at device 0.5 (no driver attached) isab0: at device 1.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 pci0: at device 1.1 (no driver attached) ohci0: mem 0xdb002000-0xdb002fff irq 22 at device 2.0 on pci0 ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting usb0: on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered ohci1: mem 0xdb003000-0xdb003fff irq 21 at device 2.1 on pci0 ohci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: SMM does not respond, resetting usb1: on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: nVidia OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered pci0: at device 2.2 (no driver attached) pci0: at device 6.0 (no driver attached) pcib1: at device 8.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 rl0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xda000000-0xda0000ff irq 18 at device 5.0 on pci1 miibus0: on rl0 rlphy0: on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl0: Ethernet address: 00:40:f4:7b:ac:f4 fwohci0: port 0xc400-0xc47f mem 0xda001000-0xda0017ff irq 18 at device 7.0 on pci1 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=1) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 8. fwohci0: EUI64 00:11:06:00:00:00:6b:29 fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 3 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: on fwohci0 fwe0: on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:11:06:00:6b:29 fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:11:06:00:6b:29 fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant sbp0: on firewire0 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me) firewire0: bus manager 0 (me) atapci0: port 0xf000-0xf00f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 9.0 on pci0 ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib2 nvidia0: mem 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff,0xd8000000-0xd8ffffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci2 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] fdc0: port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST] fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: on ppc0 plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 atkbdc0: port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4 orm0: at iomem 0xd0000-0xd3fff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2205011080 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ad0: 58644MB [119150/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 152627MB [310101/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA100 acd0: DVDR at ata1-master UDMA33 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad1s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted WARNING: /home was not properly dismounted WARNING: /proc was not properly dismounted WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted Does anyone have any idea why this crashing could be happening? Could it possibly be the bios settings? I don't think it has anything to do with the program I am running as it does nothing out of the ordinary, I could send the program source code if necessary? If it is the bios settings or an unstable motherboard, then how on earth does this manifest as a kernel panic? This really interests me. regards cali