Re: processors, video

Thanks,
If I may be of any help to you please let me know.


Best wishes,


Vedran Vucic


On Tuesday 24 August 2004 23:44, Frank Hellmann wrote:
> Hi Vedran!
>
> There is a good chance to see some sort of pixel errors, but you should
> also see some other strange issues with that machine. A machine running
> out of specs will have non-predictable and very random errors. Starting
> from not being able to boot correctly, failing to find components, up to
> crashes and burnout of components.
>
> If you are only seeing pixel errors, but memory and compilation tests
> work fine, I would point towards the graphics hardware and/or driver.
> There is a chance of a defective ram part on the graphics board, as well
> as a faulty kernel/X11 driver. Or maybe only the graphics board is
> overheating. It is pretty hard to find out the exact 'cause, but as a
> start installing new drivers might help.
>
> I have seen strange driver related issues with some of the older 48xx
> nvidia drivers and Quadro FX2000 boards, but these are resolved since
> the 5xxx series. I even had one FX2000 that would not recognize the
> extra power comming into it's extra power connector and the driver was
> claiming everthing was fine, but it was running at only 20% of it's
> usual performance...
>
> I would definatly check out which graphic boards are supported by these
> distributions. Sometimes these distributions and the applications that
> come with it aim at certain features that need to be supported by your
> hardware...
>
>              Cheers,
>
>                          Frank....
>
> Vedran Vucic wrote:
> >Hi Frank!
> >
> >Thank on friendly and good reply.  Our idea is to test one GNU/Linux
> >distribution for multimedia
> >www.mediainlinux.org
> >and one for audio called AGNULA
> >www.agnula.org
> >as well as some just video editing software packages for GNU/Linux.
> >
> >Do those PSU and heating anomalies cause pixelation or similar effects
> > besides crash of machine or possible burnout of CPU?
>
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