https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15946





--- Comment #100 from Xavier Hourcade <[email protected]>  2012-07-23 
14:25:36 ---
Still occurs, neither worse nor better cf. frequency, with:

  kernel-3.4.4-4.fc16.x86_64 (since July 10): fault occurred

I've tested more kernels, no more luck, hence default to this one ever since.

Interestingly enough, issue also occurs with... Vista's Memory Diagnostic tool
(as available from Vista boot menu entry). But it still does *not* occur under
Vista itself. This is an OEM install from Asus DVD, with all factory drivers
updated, and all Windows Update patches applied. I only use it as a "witness"
OS for hardware checks, and I cannot tell about its "Safe Mode", since it has
*always* given me a BSOD here, nothing else... :D

Vista is a poem by itself anyway, present other core issues here, and is not
even a "safe" option for this hardware : yet, I could see graphic artefacts
under heavy GPU load, which to my experience are premises to nVidia adapter
physical damages [1]. All is fine on this side under GNU/Linux. You've been
warned!

Maybe worth mentioning, Open Hardware Monitor [2] reads ACPI fine, despite
confusing FSB speed *if* launched under heavy load [3].

Asus' drivers and tools are still available at [4], including their ACPI
driver, named "ATK0100" [5]. Besides, their hardware monitoring tool, named
"NBProbe" [6], no longer works here since Windows Update's July patches were
applied (but this is strictly a GUI-related issue I think, and Open Hardware
Monitor still works well).

So to my understanding, this would confirm the Asus ACPI driver knows and
achieve to workaround our BIOS/EC factory defect, while Linux kernel doesn't
know how to deal with it.

=> Could anyone please confirm ?

=> Could we make any further reading/sniffing under Vista maybe, in order to
help replicating this workaround as a patch to Linux kernels, finally ?

[1] http://www.nvidiadefect.com
[2] https://code.google.com/p/open-hardware-monitor
[3] https://code.google.com/p/open-hardware-monitor/issues/detail?id=309
[4] http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=3&m=V1S
[5] http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/F3Tc/ATKDrv_Vista32bit_070126.zip
[6]
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/nb/Apps/NB_Probe/vista/V3.0.0033/NB_Probe_VT_070918.zip

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