Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:43:19 -0500 > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> >> As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, >> >> there will be a "blue screen memory map" error after some time. FWIW, >> >> the movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for this and found >> >> that the video cards in Dell Inspiron E1505 are defective. >> >> >> > >> > Which video card do you have? The ATI x1400 in this card was a pain in >> > the beginning, but now that ATI supports Linux it is great. I am very >> > happy with the video performance. >> > >> >> $lspci | grep ATI >> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M52 [ATI Mobility >> Radeon X1300] >> >> I can't complain about video performance. My complaint was with the >> memory parity errors when flash videos are played on Windows XP. The >> error is >> >> *** Hardware malfunction >> Call your hardware vendor for support >> NMI: Parity check/ memory parity error >> *** The system has halted*** >> >> It occurs pretty randomly. Sometimes while watching a flash video it can >> occur at 35th minute sometimes it can show up at 7th minute. Sometimes it >> might not even show up after the full video (say 60 minutes). The videos >> play fine in Linux. >> > > Perhapse you should run memtest (aptitude install memtest86+, then reboot, > choose the memtest option and let it run for a couple of hours). > > Could be that you have some faulty memory that windows is hitting and > linux not > for some reason (x3100 is a shared memory card), possibly due to video > mode, double buffering etc. > > (although I don't know if memtest can check the video memory, you should > probably set it to the minimum in the bios for the test if possible) >
FWIW, A little search in google tells that the fans of "world of warcraft" also have the same issue. (See http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=69639514&sid=1&pageNo=1 for more info). They happened to encounter it while playing that game (which, I assume, consumes a lot of RAM, CPU cycles). So it sounds like a hardware issue. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org