Asus A7V133 BIOS Update fixed kernel crash
Hi,
I just thought I should share this with the kernel developer community. When I was running my system (AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with Asus A7V133-C) with the default BIOS on the motherboard (1007) I experienced several problems when trying to run programs. Most of them either Segfaulted or caused a bus error. The crashes where usually related to situations where a program tried to display an animation or a video. Sometimes the system completely froze. I tried to compile the kernel with all kinds of different options, tried with and without athlon optimization but nothing seemed to work. I thought it might have been related to the "Athlon/AGP bug", but the solutions to fix the bug did not work for my system.
Then one day I happened to check Asus homepage and found a BIOS update for my motherboard. I flashed my BIOS with the new software (1008) and now I haven't had any problems. The BIOS came out 8.3.2002, so it's quite new. Anyone happen to know what changes where made in the new BIOS which solved my problem?
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Mattias Nordström [email protected] -www.ftlight.net-