On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Helmut Jarausch < jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have 4 nearly identical machines (same brand and model of motherbaord) > with AMD 790GX + SB750 Chipsets containing an (onbaord) Radeon HD 3300 > graphics chip. > > All of these run identical systems > kernel 2.6.31-r4, xorg-server-1.6.5 and ati-drivers-9.10 > > On one of these machines freezes after some hours with the > following message in /var/log/messages > > Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [fglrx] ASIC hang happened > I'm no ATI expert (at all - haven't used an ATI card since the 9700 days), but the above dmesg line would indicate that the GPU itself hung - maybe a BIOS/FW update (since this GPU is integrated on the MB) would be a good idea to try? It still, of course, could be a driver issue - if the driver is sending bad commands and getting the GPU into an invalid state, this could happen, but my first thought would be that it is a FW or HW issue... HTH- James
