David,

  Just had a friend walk in so I asked him... He had the same problem and it was 
because the CPU fan had gotten worn down and wasn't cooling the CPU as well as it used 
to (plus a lot of the k-6 fans were flaky to start)  His suggestion is to (his words 
not mine) open up the case stick a destop fan blowing into the box.  If that changes 
the time before it crokes... it's the fan.  Or if you don't want such a crude test get 
one of the cylindrical(sp?) fans on the market now put it in and try it out that way.  
Fans cheaper and easier to find than a k-6 mobo these days.

James


On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:53:07 -0800
"David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> James grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> >
> > I had the same problem once... Do a df -i and check to see if the
> > inodes on one of your partitions (mine was var specifically logs) has
> > filled up.  Next what was it doing when it died and was it the same
> > thing each time.... check var/log/messages to see. 
> 
> $ df -i
> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
> /dev/hde6            4294967295       0 4294967295    0% /
> /dev/hde5               8440      54    8386    1% /boot
> none                   31949       1   31948    1% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdf7            4294967295       0 4294967295    0% /home
> /dev/hde7            4294967295       0 4294967295    0% /root
> /dev/hdf2            4294967295       0 4294967295    0% /tmp
> /dev/hde8            4294967295       0 4294967295    0% /usr
> /dev/hdf6            4294967295       0 4294967295    0% /usr/local
> /dev/hde2            4294967295       0 4294967295    0% /var
> 
> 
> I don't *think* anything looks like it's full there.  I'm using ReiserFS on 
> everything except /boot, which is ext2, if it makes any difference.
> 
> Nothing in the logs at the time of the stop, and it's happening at slightly 
> different times.  I seem to get about 24 hours, plus or minus ~2 hours, or 
> runtime before it locks up again.
> 
>              --Dave
> 
> > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:45:20 -0800
> > "David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > This isn't specifically a Mandrake thing, but I'm hoping that someone here 
> > > can give me some pointers to help out.
> > > 
> > > I'm running ML 8.1 on my Linux box, and for the last several days, my 
> > > system as just stopped.  Locked up pretty completely.  I'll hit the reset 
> > > button to restart the system, and it will run for more-or-less 24 hours and 
> > > then just halt again.  The motherboard is an Epox EP-MVP3G with an AMD 
> > > K6-2 CPU in it.  I was running a 550MHz chip, and fell back to an older 
> > > 350MHz chip thinking that it might be the CPU dieing on me, but that hasn't 
> > > helped.  I've run Memtest-86 on the machine, and it doesn't report problems 
> > > with any of my RAM SIMMs.  I'm beginning to have the Creeping Feeling Of 
> > > Doom that the motherboard is dieing on me, but I'd like to get a second 
> > > opinion before I go out hunting down another K6-2 compatible Socket 7 
> > > motherboard.  Educated opinions welcomed and appreciated. :-)
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