[techtalk] Re: Hardware Interrupts?
- From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:05:08 +0000
* Greg Webb (greg.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Done some more digging - it appears the issue is the built-in card
> reader. Tried reinstalling the driver but no luck, it just seems that
> something's broken and staying broken :-( It was throwing out
> interrupts when there wasn't even a card in it, let alone if I was
> reading data.
What happens if you remove the driver and keep it removed? That should
mask off interrupts from it.
> To be honest, I'm wondering if we've got a hardware failure of some
> description :-( Was thinking about replacing it anyway, so it may have
> just jumped up the priority list.
Quite possible; interrupt storms aren't that rare when it comes to
broken hardware. Maybe something's shorted, doh.
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Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
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