Cawabunga

Hello,
I think, i dug up something finally. Currently using display drivers and south bridge drivers provided by Dell. Laptop Vostro 1000.




Now what is AtiSmBus? Even if i install southbridge driver, control panel says, no driver installed.


And why it conflicts with motherboard, if driver is not installed?


As result, random VPU recoverings at any time. I guess it is big fat bone for AMD engineers to chew.
Only what i vant is get rid of that problem. Laptop works perfectly, exept video card, or is it SmBus.

Cawabunga

LOL, after posting, couple minues and BSOD, ati2dvag (i hope, i'm not wrong).
Simple as that, chipset can't be sutch garbage. Something is wrong. But what?

Cawabunga

Found temporary solution. Using Dell's CCC, just copied 8.7 drivers over old ones, as well 2.6.2 BIOS (2.6.1 and 2.6.3 are bugged). Can disable error reporting and got more stablility that way. Still VPU recovery happens, even Flash animations cause VPU recovery but it's more stable.

Judas

i would give dell a shout as obviously, that a dell system deign problem....

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swimtech

Hi!

About the SMBus software... Are you sure you have run the Setup.exe file from the C:\DELL\DRIVERS\R134875 folder? You may have missed this step. You'll need to find that folder on your hard drive and run it if you haven't already.

The extraction, then installation, is a two step process with most Dell downloaded drivers.

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Cawabunga

Thanks for replies guys ,

Yes Swimtech, downloaded all drivers from Dell support site. All drivers are correct. Buy the way, no really difference witch i use, Dell or AMD SmBus driver. And Linux, when i compiled and installed Ati's drivers, my laptop simply started locking up randomly.
Any ways, my adventure continiues. Couple days ago i pulled out my laptop from bag and i dicovered that now i have ugly horisontal lines over screen and lines mostly disapear vhen i disable hardware acceleration from display properties. Also, when i switch display to 16bit color mode, lines are persistent. So, it is IGP fault, i don't see anything else, what could be blamed. System is very stable, it is not RAM for sure.
Games now missing a lot of textures. VPU recovery still happens but very rarely.
I bought that laptop as refubrished second hand laptop for Linux, bought it without operating systwm. Because only coice i had was windows vista (Yuk...).
Looks to me that laptop is been half dead since beginning and it was considered as workinig only for 1 reason. Dell's system test does not have hardware accelerated OpenGL test. So, some dumb ass Dell engineer ran just test, didn't installed windows with all drivers, to make sure that all is fine. And sent faulty laptop back to market, as working. Seen that before, been sending PC's and laptops to repairs and they been coming back with exactly same faults.
Going contact to vendor, who sold me that laptop. Let's see what happens, if they refuse take any actions. I'll found place where to complain and then Both get attention (including Dell), for flogging faulty laptops as working.
Looks like i need new and fully working motherboard, witch costs 100EUR, if i have buy it.