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

[Bryan N Iotti]

To answer my own question, I have finally solved the issue proper (I hope).

Turns out that in the BIOS there was a feature I knew nothing about, and 
HP never mentions.

Turn off PCI SERR# Generation and all the fabric issues vanish.

Hope this helps someone avoid the HELL it was to try and do anything 
while the computer was crashing hard all the time.

Bryan

On 05/ 9/12 11:13 AM, Bryan Iotti wrote:
> 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
>>
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