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Thanks, that seems to have fixed the problem. Do you know what particular visual effect causes the problem? I'd prefer to just disable that one, rather than put everything in low-effects mode.

I've got a fit-pc2 that I'd like to use as a desktop machine. I installed Ubuntu Lucid (desktop version) on it, and then followed the instructions at: http://www.fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php/Installing_Ubuntu_9.10 ...substituting "lucid" for "karmic" where applicable. (In other words, I installed the ...

As mentioned on the other thread, turning off hyperthreading made the problem go away.

Solution!

I turned off hyperthreading and haven't had the problem since. My uptime is five days, whereas before this, it was usually less than 24 hours.

Tried running memtest; it didn't report any RAM problems.

I switched to GV3 Only, and even plugged the machine into a non-gigE switch, in case it was somehow related to gigabit ethernet. Still happens. I'll try memtest next.

If it turns out my machine is defective, how much time do I have from the purchase date to discover and report it?

I'm having a problem on a brand-new fitpc2 that's doing a lot of heavy disk / network operations. The kernel dumps a bunch of trace beginning with: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ff09dfc0 IP: [<c0150300>] kthread_should_stop+0x10/0x20 or BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at...

I'm afraid the problem is still happening. I'll mention it on the other thread.

Will do. Is this a known issue? If you have a link to all the nerdful details, I'd love to read it.

I haven't changed anything in the BIOS; Processor Full Speed is set to "Enabled" .. should I change it?