somebody tell me if I'm wrong but I think paging has to do with virtual memory. As such your problem could be hardware related, bad ram or bad blocks on the drive. there are probly utilities to test these but I don't konw what they are. good luck, G on 6/11/00 10:46 AM, Necrotica wrote: > Lately my computer has been hanging solid every few hours. Not only is this > annoying but it has resulted in lost data and file corruption. > > A couple of days ago I started fresh. I formatted everything ReiserFS and > installed Mandrake 7.1 (with XFree 4.0). Its still doing it. > > Checking the syslong I see the error message "Unable to handle kernel paging > request at virtual address 004177c0. The address is different each time this > happens. > > There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when it happens. The computer > has been sitting idle when it happens. > > Before I go nuts, can someone please explain to me what this error > message means and what I can do to fix my problem? My fiancee runs Windows 98 > on a computer right beside mine and hers has been left on for 2 weeks straight > with no crashes. I can't make it for four hours. Any information or help would > be appreciated. > > -Chris >
