My motherboard and processor are under two years old and have always worked happily with OpenSuse, and recently with OpenSuse 11.3. Now my screen display has started to break up, with mouse and keyboard locked. The only route out is to turn off the power.
This happens whether I am in OpenSuse or just at the boot up display. If I restarted it happened more quickly, to the point where I could not boot up. I assumed that this was due to overheating, though the CPU temperature was about 42 C and the motherboard temperature seemed OK (around 30 C with the case side removed). I installed a more effective CPU cooler, which took the CPU temperature down to 23 degrees C, but the problem has persisted.
When I left the power switched off overnight, the system ran for a few minutes before freezing again. (When frozen, the screen is broken up but blinking.)
My system is pretty simple/;
Asus P5Q-EM motherboard with built in VGA (no separate video card).
Intel E8400 CPU.
I am not very expert with the system logs, but tried to access them when the system stayed up long enough, but saw nothing that seemed to tie in.
Is there any way I can tell whether the motherboard or CPU need to be replaced? As the system fails even when I am at the BIOS boot up stage, I assume it is not a software fault.
Please paste the results of lspci
It might be this bug. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615649
If it is, and please read the entire bug and all the posts, then one solution is to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf and add under where it says Identifier, under that add Driver “intel”
Caveat: you may also need to update your xorg-x11-driver-video and possibly your kernel. I’d suggest kernel 2.6.35 For the repositories, see here Index of /repositories Use wisely.
Thanks Jonathan. It was live long enough to get the lspci output, as shown below. I will dig into the bug report and work on it during the live periods.
Thanks for responding.
alistairg
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 5
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 6
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller #1
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller #2
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101 single-port PATA133 interface (rev b2)
04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW322/323 (rev 70)
I note an Intel GMA X4500HD on that motherboard, but a brief search did not indicate many others with the same problem … Thinkwiki suggests it should work with the 2.6.33 kernel in 11.3 : Intel GMA 4500MHD - ThinkWiki
I swopped the PSU but found no change, stripped the system down to bare essentials, but found the same happening and happening somewhat sooner. Even during the BIOS boot up period the screen breaks up and the system freezes, which would seem to imply that the fault is with hardware rather and not Suse software.
The motherboard has on-board graphics so Plan B for me is to replace the motherboard.