[Solved] AMD Dual Core Timing Issue AKA Mouse Bug - Page 40

bhast2 · #1 07-08-2008, 06:24 PM

Yeah i am one of those lucky people too cause i don't have problems with this

and have a AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ and not one problem at all

Voyn1x · #2 07-08-2008, 06:46 PM

To the people who say they have no problems, how long on average do you leave your hack on without rebooting.

Many of these issues don't appear until long period of uptime has passed. Also if any apps quit on you during this time with a divide by zero error then you are suffering from the dual core timing issue, albit mildly.

cgsheen · #3 07-08-2008, 07:16 PM

Ya, I've never had a problem, but I don't leave my any of my machines running 24-7. My son probably does - but he's using a single core Turion64 socket 754 CPU. The longest any of my dual (quad) cores run is 15-20 hours at a stretch (well, except when, ummm, using Transmission a few times when they had to be up for a couple of days while Transmission, ummm, finished... what it was doing...)

bhast2 · #4 07-08-2008, 08:36 PM

the only time i reboot or shut down my computer is when i have to for an update

so my computer is always running it could be weeks before i do a restart

Puttabong · #5 07-08-2008, 08:37 PM

I just switched back to two cores, because a single core is just too slow for most applications I use.

bhast2 · #6 07-08-2008, 08:39 PM

i think it is a hit and miss for people because non of my apps crash and I hardly ever turn off photoshop it is always running in the background

pmcnano · #7 07-09-2008, 05:53 AM

Do anyone knows if this happened in tiger? I dont remember, in fact when i upgraded to dual core i changed to leopard so i dont know. I want to attempt to install tiger and update to 10.4.11 but i remember i couldnt before, Can i use the software updater? (Zephyroth's). I know there are kernels, but i dont know about updates.

@bhast2, yes, im with 1 core and its slow... meh

^fire^ · #8 07-09-2008, 12:54 PM

i've start to fiddle arround with some bios settings... maybe there are some options to solve that kind of problem!

changed:
disable: CnQ
memory CL timings raised from CL5 to CL6
Disabled some ACPI settings
Disabled Enhanced halt state
Disabled Advanced Virtual Machine
Disabled USB Legacy Mode
Disabled PCI Busmaster

leopard is working fine atm since 2 hours no crashes no mousejumps, i will report if the issue happens again!

^fire^ · #9 07-09-2008, 04:14 PM

after 5 hours intensive use of macOS with the settings above still no mousejumps or crashes!!!
i made some hardcore tests to run many heavy applications at the same time e.g. eyeTV, photoshop, reason, toast, adium, UT2003, firefox (about 50tabs lol) and adium(about 10chattabwindows) without any issues!
i will check it out till today evening, if the problems doesnt come back i will change the bios settings back to normal and lemme see what happens!

seren · #10 07-09-2008, 05:27 PM

As far as this issue is concerned I'm one of the lucky ones. I have has sporadic problems with -10xxx errors and the mouse movement. My CPU is a X2 Brisbane 5000+ Black Edition (Unlocked Multi) Stock 2.6GHZ Running at 3.2GHZ with 4gb ddr2 800 @ 886. I'm running a new install of Zephs Rev2 with 10.5.4 (ASU) and modbin kernel 9.4.0. My current uptime is over 2 days not a single issue.

For what its worth i use this to stress test rather than running a bunch of apps, but using this plus a bunch of processes should stress nicely. http://www.soft32.com/Download/Free/CPUTest/4-199513-1.html . The method I use for CPU Test is 32 Instances small and 10 repetitions . YMMV .

PS

2 Days up; and running Transmission (seeding many GB) + the usual's, Firefox will Crash sometimes over night but not resulting in -10xxxx errors anymore with this install.