NVidia randomly kills my X

I've been having this problem for a few weeks now: under load my X hangs, esp when I try to start another program. It won't respond to anything, sometimes I can still move the mouse but that's all. If I had music playing, it'd play to the end of the song and then stop too.
I can still SSH into my box and kill of X, but I can't get it to "give me back my screen and keyboard": I'm stuck at vc/7 with a blank screen and the keyboard won't react. Usually I reboot the computer through SSH. Or when I'm too lazy to start up my backup box, I just do a hard reboot.
This is what I get in the logs:
May 24 15:51:03 ferro NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02009700 00002597 0000152c 00010001 00400000
May 24 16:15:22 ferro NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02009700 00002597 00000260 11190000 00400000
May 26 16:55:30 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0004 00000000 00000004 00bc0004 00000000
Jun 3 16:13:26 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 14 11:00:35 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 15 16:59:59 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 16 11:24:16 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
As you can see, it's pretty randomly. I've been looking through my pacman.log to see if I installed anything special ever since the crashes started, but I can't tell.
I've always used the nVidia drivers from the repos. Up until v66.29 everything was fine. Even on v71.74-1 (installed April 5, 2005) it's been running quite stable. So I guess the crashes aren't originating from the drivers themselves. I haven't changed my kernel in quite a while either, I really have no idea what could be causing this.
My hardware:
AMD AthlonXP 1900+
512MB SDRam
GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB
My software:
xorg 11R6.8.2-2
fluxbox-svn 20050525
kernel v2.6.11 with ck3 patchset
Come to think of it: the NVRM Xid 6 errors have been coming in since May 26. My fluxbox-svn was built the day before. Could that be causing the problem?

Had another crash today.
It seems it always happens when the system is pretty busy doing stuff and I open a new program in the process. The window of the new program seems to kill X. Last time it didn't even crash X at once: first the mouse became very sluggish and the response time was like with Windows 98 reading from a floppy. After 10 seconds or so, it didn't even react at all.
Once again I ssh'ed into the box and kill X and all, but I couldn't get the computer to respond to my keyboard input. I ran "export DISPLAY=0:0" in the ssh-session (I read somewhere that command might give me back my screen and keyboard) but it didn't help. Come to think of it, I should've ran startx too.
Anyway, some more info:
video driver:
nVidia 66.29-5, 71.74-1, 76.64-2 (currently using 66.29-5)
X.org
11R6.8.2-2
kernel
Linux ferro.begaaid.be 2.6.11-ferro_ck3 #1 Tue Apr 5 11:36:47 CEST 2005
the errors
May 24 15:51:03 ferro NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02009700 00002597 0000152c 00010001 00400000
May 24 16:15:22 ferro NVRM: Xid: 13, 0000 02009700 00002597 00000260 11190000 00400000
May 26 16:55:30 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0004 00000000 00000004 00bc0004 00000000
Jun 3 16:13:26 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 14 11:00:35 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 15 16:59:59 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 16 11:24:16 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 21 00:46:45 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 0400 ff929292 1f929290 00000000 ffbfbfbf
Jun 22 13:38:43 ferro NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 158c ffc7c7c7 1fcacac8 00000000 ffc7c7c7
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-fonts"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "freetype"
#Load "freetype2"
# Load "xtt"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
#Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "type1"
#Load "speedo"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Gateway keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us_intl"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410 "
### Uncomment if you don't want to default to DDC:
HorizSync 27.0 - 96.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "GeForce4 Ti4200"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "RenderAccel" "false"
Option "NvAGP" "2"
Option "CursorShadow" "true"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
# Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "GeForce4 Ti4200"
Monitor "Iiyama Vision Master Pro 410 "
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
As you can see, the first time it happened was May 24th. So I think it's safe to say it's not the kernel: I've been running it since April 4th pretty much flawlessly.
I really don't know what could be causing this: it happens with 3 different driverversions!

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Anyone else experienced these problems with the new drivers?
PS: I am using kdemod with Beryl...
*** EDIT ***
It seems that this is not 9755 drivers related...
Last edited by david_e (2007-04-26 20:12:32)

I am going with XGL since 2 days: no crashes till now... maybe it's an X related problem. Here is my X config. It should be ok...
Section "Module"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "dbe" # <- maybe this one?!?
Load "synaptics"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
EndSection
and :
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
VideoRam 262144
Driver "nvidia"
# Tried playing with these:
# Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "enable"
EndSection
Last edited by david_e (2007-04-30 17:45:01)

Random Shutoff after nvidia video card replacement

This is pertaining to my Macbook Pro 15.4 inch from 2007 running Lion.
A few years ago this MBP completely crapped out. About a year later I received a notification in the mail about this big nvidia lawsuit that would allow me to have my computer fixed if the lawsuit went through. It did eventually and I got my computer fixed. However since installing Lion I've been having trouble with it randomly shutting off, making that high pitch unwinding sound, the sound it makes when you hold the power button for it to hard shut down. I checked into overheating as that seems to be an issue with Lion and MBP's and I run SMC Fan Control to the max and it still shuts off, even at low (relative) temperatures around 140 F.
The weird thing is, without SMC Fan Control the fans won't ever get cranked up, at all. They stay at 2000 rpm. I figured at this point I could rule out overheating, but that's not possible because when I put my computer on ice packs and keep the internals around 80 degrees it runs like a champ. (I'm sure that will work out great in the long run what with the condensation and all). Anyone have any thoughts? I thought about reapplying thermal paste but the temperatures rarely get above 170 when it shuts off.
Thanks

barfswagon wrote:
This is pertaining to my Macbook Pro 15.4 inch from 2007 running Lion.
Macs as late as 2011 that didn't have Lion preinstalled came with two discs, one with the os x, and the other with applications and the AHT.

X Freezes at random with NVIDIA driver

Hi,
I've recently (re)installed Archlinux on my desktop, which is running two GTX 770s in SLI.
At seemingly random moments, the whole system will lock up. Mouse won't move, can't switch to a TTY, nothing. If I press the power button, the HDD light flickers, but no visual output other than that. And the machine doesn't shut down.
Obviously, I want to give my machine a fighting chance, and I go and grab some coffee thinking that all I need to do is wait. But 5 minutes later, nothing has changed.
So after a cold reset, I try again, and everything works as usual, until it happens again.
So, I tried to find a reason for this.
It happened once when I was compiling clang from source with 32 threads (all my cores were at 100%).
It happened once when I was watching a TV show in VLC.
It happened once when I switched tabs in xfce4-settings-manager.
Also, Xorg uses between 7-15% of my CPU at all times. Which seems weird to me.
I kind of assumed it was related to resource usage, but I have nothing to back that.
So.. yeah. I'm at a loss, I have no idea what is causing this, and it's pretty annoying to have to reboot every few hours.
Any help is appreciated, and I'll try my best to help you to help me.
Thanks.

I'm back, and my machine just froze again.
Apr 22 01:52:36 enterprise kernel: NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00: GPU-db8532d6-d93f-7534-ca97-3431c6e99f9a
Apr 22 01:52:36 enterprise kernel: NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 31, Ch 00000001, engmask 00000101, intr 10000000
Apr 22 01:52:36 enterprise kernel: NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 13, 0001 00000000 0000902d 000005e0 00140539 00000000
Apr 22 01:52:37 enterprise kernel: NVRM: GPU at 0000:02:00: GPU-31eb024a-cd2a-1fc8-048d-c3137e466247
Apr 22 01:52:37 enterprise kernel: NVRM: Xid (0000:02:00): 61, 12a4(1f48) 00000000 00000000
So, I guess it is an nvidia issue.
What can I do about this?

[nVidia Series] P4N Diamond System Randomly Freezes

Please help if you can. I've tried everything.
System Specs.
Pentium D 840
MSI P4N Diamond
4x512 Kingston DDR-II 667 (2 Matched Pairs)
2x 76Gb WD Raptors in Raid 0 (on SIL controller)
2x MSI Geforce NX6600GT-VTD128E
1x Sony 1.44mb FDD
2x Pioneer 109 DVD+/-R/RW
Thermaltake Armour Case
Thermaltake 560W PurePower PSU
Thermaltake Big Typhoon CPU Cooler
Windows XP Pro OEM
System freezes randomly. Tends to happen quicker if I reset the system after the initial freeze. Stress testing makes the system freeze quicker. Has frozen while installing XP five or six times. Sometimes freezes while loading (on the welcome screen). Always the same hard lock, everything stops (including audio etc).
I've got the latest bios and latest drivers (from nvidia).
I have tried almost every possible permutation of Bios Settings.
I have swapped the motherboard.
Tried just a single stick of ram, tried a single stick of another brand and also tried DDR-II 533.
I've tried using both SATA controllers, just a single Raptor (with both drives) and also a single WD1200JB Hard drive.
Tried 3 different 500+ watt PSUs
Tried using a single video card (with both cards)
Tried a P4 650 CPU (just in case the CPU was faulty, I MUST get dual core working though)
I have re-installed XP fresh for every change in hardware configuration.
What else can I do? Has anyone got a setup similar to this working?
Advice would be greatly appreciated. I've spent three days solid on this.

Still going on this one. Tried another PSU.
ANTEC 550W True Power 2.0 TP2550EPS12V
OUTPUT
+3.3V +5V +12V1 +12V2 +5V SB -12V
Max. Load 32.0A* 40A* 19A* 19A 2.0A 1.0A
Min. Load 0.5A 0.5A 0.4A 0.4A 0A 0A
Load Reg. ±3% ±3% ±3% ±3% ±5% ±5%
Ripple V(p-p) 50mV 50mV 120mV 120mV 50mV 120mV
Still no luck
Suggestions?

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