Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Jason Dodson
99% of people with this issue have a cheap, insufficient power supply. Fernando Antunes wrote: Hi, my Pentium 4 box freeze suddenly sometimes. Reboot is a only solution. I can try to figure out for a especific use or especific application to associate, but no success. I suspect this is a

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas G. Willis
And probably a portion of the remaining 1% have bad ram or a failing memory controller. On 4/28/06, Jason Dodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 99% of people with this issue have a cheap, insufficient power supply. Fernando Antunes wrote: Hi, my Pentium 4 box freeze suddenly sometimes. Reboot is a

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Fernando Antunes
I've already run memtest86, no problem report. On 4/28/06, Thomas G. Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And probably a portion of the remaining 1% have bad ram or a failing memory controller. On 4/28/06, Jason Dodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 99% of people with this issue have a cheap,

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Jarry
Fernando Antunes wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. What about disks? Did you check smart-status? Download some utility (e.g. SeaTools for Seagate disks) and check disks without booting system... BTW, sudden freezing does not look like kernel panic... Jarry --

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas G. Willis
The powersupply may be it then. I don't know whether the logs would tell you that though. I had freezing problems with my old box. I was only able to narrow it down when I got to a point where I could reproduce the problem reliably. In my case the logs were no help, but encoding a file to mp3

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:24:19 -0300 Fernando Antunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. positive testing of a hypothesis is not a proof of correctness. Negative testing is a proof of its falseness. That said, you can only validate the hypothesis of not

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. Try this one instead: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Richard Fish wrote: On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. Try this one instead: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html -Richard I ran into this with a family member

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/28/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. Try this one instead:

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 4/28/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into this with a family member recently, the CPU was running hot and the mobo was cutting the CPU off. The only way to get it back up again was to reboot. She kept doing this though, thinking it was windoze,

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas G. Willis
And Thomas, I have a pavilion, it runs flawless for a LONG time now, so, don't say that kinda stuff about it, my notebook have feelings, you know... oops sorry , I like the laptops actually, a lot, the Pavillion I had I bought used from someone was a desktop. The previous owner bought a mac cuz