how's your fan?
the motherboard could be over heating.
on 8/16/00 8:49 PM, Ellick Chan wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Stout, Wayne wrote:
>
> I have had a couple older machines, <200mhz that I didn't touch in a
> while, and the Mandrake gui installer would fail at apparently random
> points, and when running,the thing would also die randomly. I found that
> pulling the RAM, and re-inserting it didn't help, so I was desparate,
> pulled all the cards, then pulled the CPU itself. That seemed to fix
> it. Apparently, the CPU must have been loose, and maybe when the thing
> got hot, it lost the connection or something. So, I must recommend pulling
> everything apart and putting it back together. Linux doesn't usually die
> from things other than bad mem or a screwy CPU.
>
>
>> Ok, I'm a wee bit confused here. My Linux box has started hanging and
>> rebooting for no apparent reason. ( I know there's a reason, and I'm pretty
>> sure it's my fault. :) )
>>
>> Here's the scenario. I've been running Mandrake 7.1 on my desktop for a few
>> week, everything was going along nicely. I installed it on my laptop and
>> gave ReiserFS a shot. Worked like a dream. So, I decided to re-install and
>> use Reiser instead of ext2 on my desktop.
>>
>> After doing this, everything seemed ok for about half an hour or so, then in
>> the middle of an Xboing game, the computer rebooted automagically. Struck me
>> as odd, but the box came up just fine. (I really like how a ReiserFS box
>> comes back after a crash, btw) Logged back in and started another game of
>> Xboing. (I can't help it, I like this game) Just like before, the box
>> rebooted. My first thought was that the game was somehow causing the system
>> to reboot. (I know, I've spent too much time providing support for MS
>> products) So, when the box comes back up, I don't start a game, I just let
>> it sit while I do something else in the room. Yep, it rebooted again.
>>
>> As a test, I powered the computer off, and left it off for the rest of the
>> evening. The next day, I boot back into Linux, start X and dial up to my
>> ISP. We tool along for a while, longer than 30 minutes, then the box hangs
>> completely. No alt-fkeys here, it took a hard boot to come back. I try again
>> a couple more times, not dialing in, but having various programs going, and
>> get another hang and another reboot.
>>
>> Now I'm thinking I have some flaky hardware combination that doesn't like
>> Reiser, so I do another complete re-install and put everything back to ext2.
>> Unfortunately, the problem still exists. Doesn't seem to be tied to any
>> particular program, nor does it have a definate time before it flakes, it
>> will hang or reboot seemingly at will.
>>
>> Hadware specifics:
>> Cyrix 6x86 PR200
>> 64 meg ram (72 pin SIMMS)
>> 13 gig Maxtor hard drive: 2 Windows partitions (total approx 6 gig), /,
>> /usr/local, and /home (approx 2 gig each)+ 250 swap linux partitions
>> Trident 9685(?) PCI video card
>>
>> X 3.3.6 running SVGA server
>> Running default MDK kernel
>>
>> The only thing I haven't tried is resetting my BIOS settings. I had tried to
>> add an old 512 meg hard drive (only under Windows) to move some large files
>> home from work. The drive never would work, and I removed it from the pc.
>>
>> I'm not at the computer, so I can't give you the log files right at the
>> moment, but I can get them pretty easily.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas? I've even used Tom's rtbt floppy to delete the linux
>> partitions completely, then try inistalling again.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
