This sounds like an IRQ storm failure and is probably not a Mandrake-specific issue if that's the case.
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 19:23, Matthew C. Tedder wrote: > I recently read a negative review of Linux Mandrake from a Red Hat user and > presumed that this hasn't only happened to me. (Can't seem to find the > article again but he said it locked up and shut down shortly after typing > starting slowing down on the console). > > It happened to me 3 times in the last few days but at completely random > times--I don't know why. The machine just shut itself down. > > Maybe I should make a bug report: I've had this machine for about one year > now. The motherboard is a Promise 7DXR (something like that...) with RAID > (although Mandrake just makes both drives available separately.) > > Matthew >
