As portable systems become increasingly power-conscious, the need for smart power management becomes equally important. Besides the main processor, an auxiliary Microcontroller Unit (MCU) often ...

We ordered some Syba low profile PCI firewire cards (these) for a lab using Dell Optiplex 780s (Win 7) for video capture. The cards cause Windows to bluescreen with a memory parity error, very soon ...

Modern technology builds on abstractions. Most application programmers today don’t know what a non-maskable interrupt is, nor should they have to. Even fewer understand register coloring or ...

To see the interrupts occurring on your system, run the command: # watch -n1 "cat /proc/interrupts" CPU0 CPU1 0: 330 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 11336 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 4: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge 6: 3 0 ...

NMI (non maskable interrupt) errors with AMD AGP Driver + newer ATI/Nvidia drivers ...