spurious 8259a interrupt irq7
 

after test 2 i get the following message......Spurious 8259A Interrupt IRQ7
the test continue to run.
this machine has a history or "weird" problems....video wont work, lines in the screen, etc
power supply, motherboard, cpu, ram, hard drive, video card have all been replaced.

I haven't really found anything on this error anywhere...ideas??

[QUOTE=RCE]Spurious 8259A Interrupt IRQ7[/QUOTE]
IMO it's not a message from GIMPS software. It's coming from your operating system, probably. Looks like something is not connected properly or connected improperly on/to IRQ7.

I get the same error about 11-12 tests in running it in a boot disk..


My computer also has had sporadic problems, with every component replaced..


Nothing is on IRQ 7... Googling the issue just brings up years-old linux posts.

My computer also blackscreens (not reboots, just goes to a black screen) after the 900th test or so


Any ideas?

NF7-S Rev2.0
Athlon Mobile 2200+
2x512 PC4000 Kingston HyperX
Radeon 9600pro
SB Audigy

Susgestion
 

Go to the hardware manager and check that no 2 cards are useing irq7 also you can use the bios to manually assign irqs it could be somethings misconfiguered. take out sound card and if possible network card.

No network Card in,



Sound could be removed... I'd miss it though :)

Regardless, nothing uses IRQ 7, hence why its a spurious interrupt :-P

If you are not using the parallel port, try disabling it. It usually defaults to using IRQ 7.

Normally, the parallel port generating spurious interrupts is not a major problem and can be ignored.