It could also be tied to faulty RAM, I believe. 
I have an Athlon system, VIA chipset.  Mandrake 8.0 stability is not an issue 
at all (DRI and Radeon video driver on the other hand IS an issue and causes 
system lockups when playing games).

On Friday 18 May 2001 09:02, Civileme wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2001 09:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How is everybody finding the stability of their Mandrake
> > 8 boxes?  I've been having some problems.
> >
> > I've had several random lockups while in KDE.  Nothing I
> > can replicate.  Somtimes it locks while I'm doing
[...]
>
> Yet, we have boxes running 8.0 since it was released, never rebooted, with
> no problem.  AMDs and Intels with and without VIA chipsets.  What you are
> describing I have seen before only when I had a loose or failing CPU
> cooling fan.

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