The same thing happens to me (M7.2), but it doesn't take all night to do it. 
It's very sporadic in my case: it can lock up after 5 minutes of use, after 
several hours of use, or not lock up at all. The mouse and keyboard are 
definitly dead... except for Ctrl-Alt-SysReq sequences.

Instead of turning off the system at the switch, try Ctrl-Alt-SysReq-B. It 
saves wear and tear on the on/off switch. Ctrl-Alt-SysReq-O works too :) 

I've tried everything I can think of to fix it: removed daemons, not run 
certain programs, see if running certain programs contribute to the lockups, 
etc. Nor can I find any error messages in the logs.

I'm running a Gateway Select, 850MHz AMD, 128MB, so it's not like I'm under 
powered <grin>.  I'm beginning to suspect it's an IRQ conflict of some 
sort... that or bad RAM

-Al

On Sunday 15 July 2001 03:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I wonder if anyone has any ideas please:
> I have an old Pentium 133 with 32 MB ram with Mandrake 7.2 that seems to
> run OK, but when I leave it on running the KDE desktop at night the whole
> thing gets stuck with the mouse not moveable and no keys having any effect
> - so I have to turn it off at the switch.  I have looked at the bios for
> power saving and that all appears to be off.  Any ideas on what could be
> 'stuffing things up' ? (No I'm not trying to run KDE under windows).
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel.

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