[OpenIndiana-discuss] PCIEX-8000-KP was Re: Nvidia errors on 151a4

[Bryan Iotti]

Hi all,

The reinstall went smoothly, but upon reinstall, fmd started to complain
about problems with the only PCI Express x16 slot (slot 2) that holds the
video card.

It is littering the error log with reports of problems with the pci fabric
and it freezes up shortly thereafter. Before the reinstall, I only had the
errors in fmdump -e, the one in fmadm faulty had gone away after removing
and cleaning the old dust-filled Quadro.

This is a new card in the slot, an Asus Nvidia GTX 550 Ti.

I have read up on the error:
http://www.illumos.org/msg/PCIEX-8000KP

On the Oracle blogs, it says that sometimes it's a fake, reported by fmd
because of a bug they suppositely fixed in Sol 10 11/08 (I think).

Now, my course of action was to try to disable the fmd modules relating to
fabric and io by issuing fmadm disable io-report and fmdadm disable
fabric-xlate, but to no avail, it still crashed and they are reloaded on
reboot. I then tried to disable the fmd service in SMF. Crashed still.

Any clues? I know the card is mounted properly and has enough power through
the additional cable that runs from the PSU to the accessory 6 pin plug.

Could it be that it's my motherboard that's kicking the can this time?

Bryan
On May 9, 2012 9:32 AM, "Bryan Iotti" <ironsides.medvet at gmail.com> wrote:

> After a lot of time spent troubleshooting, only to see the crashes become
> more frequent, I ended up having to reinstall... This time I'm starting
> from the 151a3 disk, not the 148 one, and I'll avoid setting esoteric paths
> and the like (after all, I kind of know where the software I need is and I
> can call it by full pathname). The old Quadro was moved to my other
> machine, a dual boot Fedora16/WindowsXP rig I use for firmware flashing and
> some light gaming.
>
> Thank you all.
>    Bryan
>