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Date:      Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:33:00 +0300
From:      "ANdrei" <lists@hausro.de>
To:        <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Quiet computer + ATi Radeon 9700 Pro issue
Message-ID:  <009c01c6d91f$48b828c0$857ba8c0@Rage>
References:  <78ED28FACE63744386D68D8A9D1CF5D420999B@MAIL.corp.lumeta.com>

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anybody wanna trade in their server for my VIA C3 laptop? :D I'll only take
an exchange with a server scoring more than 700.000 in ubench :D no, really,
this result is pretty impressive. Is this Core2 Duo?

On the other hand, maybe someone can help me with an advice for an ATi card.
It's a Radeon 9700 Pro from Sapphire. It worked ok for years, 2 days ago i
shut down my PC in the evening, and in the morning while booting I get
screen corruption in the POST screen (coloured lines and squares). I boot
windows to see if this happens there too, and I can't recognize anything on
the desktop because of the colour artifacts. Even the BIOS screen is
garbage.
This card has a massive Zalman cooler on it and should not have any heat
issues, as I never use it for gaming or so, only for video production. Tried
to set AGP voltage lower and higher with 0.1V, checked AGP speed (66MHz),
power cable for the card (has additionl power), nothing helps, all seems ok.
Changed it for a Radeon 7000VE I had around, and this one gives me
corruption also in POST screen, but under Windows it's clear. Didn't test
this one on BSD, but overlay (while watching videos) also gives me screen
corruption.

Ran memtest86, my RAM is ok, tried the 9700Pro on another motherboard (P4 on
a MSI mobo, SIS chipset) that I know to work well, in a new PC (thought
maybe my PSU dies), and I still get the artefacts... Now I am a bit afraid
to put a new card in on my motherboard, could it be that it destroys my
video cards? As it is unlikely that both Radeons (9700Pro and 7000VE) have
the same problem, suddenly... The second card was known to work ok. ATi is
of no use, they wanna RMA it...

Thought that maybe someone here has any ideas, beside flashing my video
cards' BIOS (last hope, but I don't think it helps anyway, as this card has
"died" suddenly, without me doing anything, as it seems).


thanks,
ANdrei

PS: I just found my old Nokia Communicator 9110i, that has a 80486 AMD in
it... now that would be smtg for ubench, could I run it on that one :)

http://students.oamk.fi/~t6ruan00/
------
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down
to their level then beat you with experience...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bucky Jordan" <bjordan@lumeta.com>
To: "Fluffles" <etc@fluffles.net>; <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:52 PM
Subject: RE: Quiet computer


Ok, I'll jump in too:

Dell 2950, 2x3.0 dual core woodcrest 4MB cache (Intel 5160)
8GB (4x2GB 667Mhz), 1333 Mhz FSB

Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May  7 04:15:57 UTC 2006
root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP amd64
Ubench CPU:  1231782
Ubench MEM:   317772
--------------------
Ubench AVG:   774777

To make a "fair" comparison, you'd need to divide the CPU number by 4,
since there's 4 cores: 307945.5

- Bucky

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Fluffles
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 5:58 AM
To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Quiet computer

Olivier Gautherot wrote:
> Benchmark results confirmation:
>
>
>>>> Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
>>>> Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
>>>> Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
>>>> http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
>>>> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Fri Jun 16
09:21:34
>>>> PDT 2006     root@PCBSD.localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PCBSDv1.11
i386
>>>> Ubench CPU:    15374
>>>> Ubench MEM:    21651
>>>> --------------------
>>>> Ubench AVG:    18512
>>>>
>
> On a 1GHz C3 in single user mode:
>
> Ubench CPU:    16929
> Ubench MEM:    23020
> --------------------
> Ubench AVG:    19974
>
> Cheers
>

Nice comparison with my test server:

Unix Benchmark Utility v.0.3
Copyright (C) July, 1999 PhysTech, Inc.
Author: Sergei Viznyuk <sv@phystech.com>
http://www.phystech.com/download/ubench.html
FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #1: Sun Aug 27 08:12:45 CEST
2006     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TETRA i386
Ubench CPU:   133859
Ubench MEM:   195856
--------------------
Ubench AVG:   164857

On AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with 2x512MB DDR/400 memory - nForce4 chipset.

- Veronica


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