TomBuntu Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 I am experiencing random crashes. I am not sure that it's hardware related. Tried Nvidia and ATI cards and Intel and Nforce boards. No other PCI cards. No overclocking. Stable under Ubuntu and XP. What happens is about half the screen turns dark when OS X crashes and it freezes. No message to restart your computer or anything. Here are the specs: - IDeneb 10.5.5 (happened with older/other distributions as well) - 250 GB IDE HD - Q6600 CPU - P5K SE/EPU mobo - OCZ RAM running at stock speeds - 500 Watt PS Any insight on this issue would be very much appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Use a sata drive instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomBuntu Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 Use a sata drive instead. Hi snackole, Thanks for the tip. Will try it out when I have some spare cash. Is this speaking from experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawiinci Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Hi snackole, Thanks for the tip. Will try it out when I have some spare cash. Is this speaking from experience? I can verify this. IDE let the system crash. (message to restart) Unplugged it was working. It seems like it had problems by transfering data from/to IDE (and in my case Marvell SATA). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomBuntu Posted October 13, 2008 Author Share Posted October 13, 2008 Update, All SATA drives. 9800GT video. And STILL crashing! Help! I don't think it's IDE related, I disabled it in the BIOS. Thanks. -Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomBuntu Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 Ok, I disabled memory remapping in the BIOS. Seems to be running quite stable right now. No crash yet. *holds fingers crossed* -Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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