Jonathan Dlouhy grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> Dave, it definetly sounds like a hardware problem. It sounds like
> something gets heated up after 24 hours then fails. It could be a one
> of several things. Don't flame me for this, but, have you tried a
> different OS to see if it does the same thing?
That would require an awful *lot* of work to install something else, which
is not exactly something I'm too keen on right now... :-) However, as it
*has* been runing Mandrake reliably for many months (close to a year) now,
I don't think it's an OS thing. Not a flame, just some info. :-)
> If so, then it's got to be a hardware problem. I would investigate the
> RAM, then the motherboard. I don't know how much ram you have, but if
> you could beg, borrow or steal some other ram, swap yours out then
> run it for a couple of days. If it doesn't lock up, then I guess we
> know the problem. If it still does it it's time to look at the mb.
> After that I'm out of ideas.
I've got 256M of RAM in the machine, to answer your (implied) question. I
don't know anyone with memory that I could borrow. :-) As I mentioned in
my earlier message, I've run Memtest-86 (you boot it up from a diskette) on
this machine, and it doesn't find any problems with memory (when I was
experiencing a problem where the machine started spontaneously rebooting
from time to time for no apparent reason, Memtest-86 identified bad memory
and when I replaced that SIMM module, the reboots stopped - so I trust this
utility).
Thanks for the reply!
--Dave
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