Random Freezes w/No Error Messages Aurora 7700m - Page 2

What names should we call them? LOL...

GrayFox or UbuRoy--any more updates on your end?

I recently went around 150 CPU hours of idle time before a freeze. That's the longest interval ever. Haven't made any changes to my system. After the latest freeze, I'm now back to experiencing up to 3 lockups per day.

More internet spelunking revealed a suggestion about disabling USB root hubs and controllers. I did that, but I still got a freeze shortly thereafter.

Do any of you experiencing the lockup problem have shared IRQ's? If so, which IRQs are being shared and by what componets (Start--->Run---> msinfo32, click + by Hardware Resources, then select IRQs). Mine shows the following shared IRQs:

IRQ 20 is shared by:Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller and VIA SATA RAID Controller

IRQ 21 is shared four times by VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller as well as by VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller

IRQ 22 is shared by Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R) Audio Controller and AC97 Soft Spkerphone Modem with SmartSP

IRQ 31 is shared by two instances of VIA PCI to PCI Bridge Controller

All of the IRQ sharing shows "OK" in the status column.

I have nothing listed under "Forced Hardware".

Finally, under Memory I have:

0x80000000-0xFEBFFFFFPCI busOK
0xD0000000-0xD1FFFFFFVIA PCI to PCI Bridge ControllerOK
0xD0000000-0xD1FFFFFFNVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX XG MobileForce by TRU OK
0xC0000000-0xCFFFFFFFVIA PCI to PCI Bridge ControllerOK
0xC0000000-0xCFFFFFFFNVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX XG MobileForce by TRU OK
0xD1000000-0xD1FFFFFFNVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX XG MobileForce by TRU OK
0xFEBFF000-0xFEBFFFFFTexas Instruments PCI-1410 CardBus ControllerOK
0xFEBFE000-0xFEBFEFFFTexas Instruments PCI-1410 CardBus ControllerOK
0xFABFE000-0xFEBFDFFFTexas Instruments PCI-1410 CardBus ControllerOK
0xD2214000-0xD22147FFTexas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host ControllerOK
0xD2210000-0xD2213FFFTexas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host ControllerOK
0xD2214800-0xD22148FFRealtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NICOK
0xD2200000-0xD220FFFFWLAN a+b+g mini-PCI ModuleOK
0xD2214C00-0xD2214CFFVIA USB Enhanced Host ControllerOK
0xFFF00000-0xFFFFFFFFSystem boardOK
0xFFEE0000-0xFFEFFFFFSystem boardOK
0xFEC00000-0xFEC00FFFSystem boardOK
0xFEE00000-0xFEE00FFFSystem boardOK
0xE0000000-0xE0008FFFSystem boardOK
0xE0010000-0xE009FFFFSystem boardOK
0xE0200000-0xE0201FFFSystem boardOK
0xA0000-0xBFFFFPCI busOK
0xA0000-0xBFFFFVIA PCI to PCI Bridge ControllerOK
0xA0000-0xBFFFFNVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX XG MobileForce by TRU OK
0xC0000-0xC3FFFPCI busOK
0xC4000-0xC7FFFPCI busOK
0xC8000-0xCBFFFPCI busOK
0xCC000-0xCFFFFPCI busOK
0xD0000-0xD3FFFPCI busOK
0xD4000-0xD7FFFPCI busOK
0xD8000-0xDBFFFPCI busOK
0xDB000-0xDBFFFTexas Instruments PCI-1410 CardBus ControllerOK
0xDC000-0xDFFFFPCI busOK
0xDC000-0xDFFFFMotherboard resourcesOK
0xE0000-0xEFFFFPCI busOK
0xF0000-0xFFFFFPCI busOK

So, nothing looks openly problematic to me, but others may see something that I don't.

BTW, a shot in the dark--I just turned off AMD Cool 'N Quiet, so there's no more chip throttling on my system. We'll see if that does anything besides raise the Aurora's operating temperature.

Ok, I'm bringing this thread back from the dead.

Strong indications are that Cool 'n Quite might very well be the culprit behind my Aurora's random freeze ups. I'm currently at 194 CPU hours of idle time (that's really 97 hours per cpu x 2) with no further freezing. I've run everything and hibernated the machine a bunch with no problems. Could the solution really be this simple? The acid test will be when I reenable Cool 'n Quiet to see if the freezes return. I'm going to run a bit longer without it, however, just to make sure it's not something else.

I'm sure that as soon as I post this, the machine will freeze and I'll be back at square 1. Still, I thought it'd be worth mentioning.

Do the rest of you with the lock-up problem have Cool 'n Quiet enabled?