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Old SGI Irix UNIX box kernel panics

I am relatively new to 'older unix' systems but I am hoping someone can help me with the error I am seeing on my box. We have an Irix 6.5 running. Our computer keeps restarting (crashed once) itself, by itself, at random points in the last 5 out of 8 sessions. This is the sys log, that i took a picture of, see link below. I am leaning towards a video/gx card issue?
The card is a 32mb Odyssey

the link is this Dropbox - IMG_2134.JPG

Thanks for any help

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PERLIRIX(1)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					       PERLIRIX(1)

NAME
perlirix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems DESCRIPTION
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Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbug@perl.org. perl v5.16.3 2013-03-04 PERLIRIX(1)