From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RiX8u-0001aG-09 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:09:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F47F21C085; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:08:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-tul01m020-f181.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5BA21C025 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:07:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbup6 with SMTP id up6so16744687obb.40 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:07:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=xD2vsBUtTSuY4D+qtZLK4MnsmwJQAuBbyU0WIZt40Ck=; b=CTHUcykgchtblOfZ8a1c96aTpOfD5LMSHNJnJoUe8w2MQJQmnp2z7DGMfuoK+vcGFA jIBNabdNW77ZV85NkT4tDULzI+vsYMmAP2ox0L/Ro2CPQ+FiiYyoCt9mZBGlzru1VOyV UdmLW2C2XSAZ6URqSa6vw5LjdPD8Af8On3oZ4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.159.131 with SMTP id xc3mr67910263igb.27.1325707659630; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:07:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.170.136 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:07:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:07:39 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles From: Jason Weisberger To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 8f32da20-7429-4ca3-8170-ca5a99255ff9 X-Archives-Hash: 14fdfd8c5153773769853647a98a9f96 Here's the rig: AMD Phenom II X3 720 (unlocked to 4 cores and OC'd to 3 Ghz, however taking it back to stock doesn't affect the problem) 4 Gigs DDR3-1600 at 7-7-7-16 ASUS ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 Mobo MSI N9800GT GeForce 9800 GT 512MB other less important things would be two 320GB SATA drives, an IDE dvd writer, internal card reader, blah blah There are two things I can get this system to consistently lock up while doing: a large compilation such as Chromium, open office, or GCC, or playing Age of Conan in my separate Windows 7 partition. For normal everyday tasks, I can't lock the thing up. The system even plays WoW on maximum settings, Skyrim on max, Counter-Strike Source on max, 1080p youtube or local videos / movies. Watching the processor temp stays relatively low, the GPU temp stays normal, north bridge temp is good. The kernel panics I get are usually recoverable, I can just F7 back into my desktop and the compile may or may not still be going. If it is, it's usually dead by the third or fourth panic. Memtest86+ ran for 24 hours and found no issues with memory on 18 passes. So, pretty much where I'm at is either processor or RAM. Unless anybody here has a better idea. And how could I test whether it was the processor or RAM without any current replacement parts? What tests usually show one over the other? -- Jason Weisberger jbdubbs@gmail.com