firewire card causing reboots

[cacasodo]

This is odd. My Belkin firewire card that worked under Fedora 7, x86-64 works on my new Fedora 10, x86-64 system. I can use the card to grab video and the video is clean. However, after a few minutes of being up and running, the system reboots itself. If I remove the card, no reboot problem.

My system is a Dell SC1430 with 2GB ram, dual quad 1.6Ghz CPUs.

I have a second firewire card, a D-Link. When I use the D-Link card, the system is stable; however, the video captured from this card with either test-mpeg2 or dvgrab is garbled.

One caveat: in order to avoid a second problem on this system (reboots/lockups outside of these firewire card reboots, problem noted here), I have "noapic" specified on the kernel startup line in grub.conf.

What the heck? Does anyone have any suggestions on a troubleshooting path I might take?
sodo

[marcrblevins]

Take all of your firewire cards out and let the rig run for a week 24/7 to rule its the card issue itself causing the reboots.

Mind sharing the firewire card info?

[Brian1]

Wonder if your system gets to CPU intense and over heating to cause reboot. Can you leave the card in and not use it for that period of time or does it still reboot while not using it for video transfer? Also if worked fine in FC7 maybe the newer kernel is the cause. Either upgrade or downgrade the kernel and test it that way too.

Brian

[cacasodo]

Marc,
The card that seems to be causing the reboots is a Belkin F5U503.
The card that doesn't cause reboots is a D-Link DFW-500, Rev B1.

The Belkin seems to be the smoking gun as the box was stable for at least two weeks with the D-Link and "noapic" patch for the other issue noted above. The reason why I swapped out the D-Link was that I finally got around to testing uploading videos from my camera and noticed that the D-Link gave me corrupted video files once uploaded. Once I swapped in the Belkin, videos were clean, but then the box would immediately reboot. I swapped ports on the Belkin, but got the same rebooting behavior. Once removed, reboots went away.

Brian,
I monitored total CPU as measured in System Monitor and it is not spiking. I will double check whether the rebooting happens if the card is in the box, but not used.

thanks for the responses, guys.
sodo

[cacasodo]

Guys,
I upgraded the kernel from
Fedora (2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64)
to
Fedora (2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.x86_64)

And my corrupt videos with the D-Link have gone away.

I wonder what changes to the kernel could have fixed the problem?

Anyway, I can live with the D-Link solution.

thanks for the help,
sodo

[cacasodo]

Now with the kernel upgrade, the D-Link reboots the box. Argh!

And the Belkin doesn't import video. Argh.

[Brian1]

Lots of changes are going on in the latest kernels. Seems the kernels modules sometimes just cant keep up to the many changes going on. I look at getting and older kernel and see what happens.

Brian