HD 3300 GPU hang - hardware or software problem?

[HJarausch]

Hi,

I have 4 nearly identical machines (same brand and model of motherbaord)
with AMD 790GX + SB750 Chipsets containing an (onbaord) Radeon HD 3300
graphics chip.

All of these run identical systems
kernel 2.6.31-r4, xorg-server-1.6.5 and ati-drivers-9.10

On one of these machines freezes after some hours with the
following message in /var/log/messages

Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [fglrx] ASIC hang happened
Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: Pid: 2698, comm: X Tainted: P W
2.6.31-gentoo-r4 #2
Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: Call Trace:
Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa005b00c>] ?
firegl_hardwareHangRecovery+0x1c/0x50 [fglrx]
Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa00cc459>] ?
_ZN4Asic9WaitUntil15ResetASICIfHungEv+0x9/0x10 [fglrx]
Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa00cc40c>] ?
_ZN4Asic9WaitUntil15WaitForCompleteEv+0x6c/0xb0 [fglrx]
Nov 5 11:35:48 numa-iii kernel: [<ffffffffa00cb414>] ?
_ZN4Asic19PM4ElapsedTimeStampERK23PM4_TS_INTERRUPT _PARAMSj14_LARGE_INTEGER+0x134/0x1c0
[fglrx]

and so on.

Shall I conclude that this motherboard is broken?
Or is it bug in ati-drivers (not to recover from this).

What can I do otherwise?

Many thanks,
Helmut.

[monraaf]

Switch to the opensource radeon driver, it's more stable and of better quality than fglrx. I doubt you'll see another asic hang again.