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.)
Have you tried the standard debug procedure for this type of problem?
That is to power down, remove all the cards except your video card,
power up. If the problem has gone, replace the cards one by one (power
down, plug in, power up) until you locate which card is faulty.
I have had intermittent hangs recently on one of my machines and this
technique isolated the problem to my Sound Blaster Live! card. Removed
it and everything has stayed good.
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