Comment 22 for bug 665796

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Toni Shocker (shocker) wrote : Re: Intel Core i7, nVidia proprietary - Timer interrupt freezes, system becomes sluggish

I am also experiencing the EXACT same problem with i7 930. My videocard: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c375 [ViRGE/DX] or 86c385 [ViRGE/GX] (rev 01) (veeeeeery old crap), I don't need any video, was using that videocard just to have the computer start... random high kernel cpu usages, ~3-5 minutes, "interrupt 0 (IR-IO-APIC-edge timer) stays frozen until the problem goes away. No messages appear on dmesg or in /var/log/kern.log"
There is no sound/video usage, so it might not be directly related to them