Jesse Kline wrote: > I was able to get some tech stuff under the tree this year, and I also > used boxing day to purchase some additional upgrades for my computer. I > upgraded the processor to an AMD Athalon 2100+, I upgraded the video > card to an Asus GeForce 4 MX440-SE, and I added a 120GB hard drive and > installed Mandrake 9.0 on it. Everything is great so far, but I > installed it on the 27th, and the thing must have crashed about 20 times > since then. I'm not sure what is causing the crashes but I remember > awhile back Dan said that the latest NVidia drivers were causing his box > to lock hard. This is the same thing that is happening to me, when it > locks I cannot even ssh into it, I need to hard reboot it. I tried going > back 2 revisions of the NVidia drivers and nothing has helped. I just > let my machine run for a couple of hours running glxgears, and of course > it locked on me
I think the problem is your machine is overdosing on all the crack you gave it. What kind of honest linux (desktop) machine needs 120GB? Seriously, I would suggest maybe working backwards, and trying old hardware, which is a pain, but may provide some answers. Maybe try your old video card, and then your old cpu (tho I am guessing you prob dont want to be swapping them around). maybe try the old drive with the new machine too. if its dying hard, I would say look at hw first, but you could also try running X w/o the nvidia binary drivers at all, just the old "nv" driver. Dave
