Thanks for suggestions for various stress tests---I will try them tonight. To answer James Sparenberg's question: I have tried both the 0.13mdk and the 0.18mdk. I usually use NeTraverse' win4lin enabled kernel, but have reverted to the standard Mandrake kernels to see if this is the problem. I do not use the SMP kernels.
I would be slightly surprised if it was a hardware problem, given that I have run Mandrake 9.0 for 3--4 months and 8.1 for about a year without problems of this sort. For the same reason, X is not too likely to be the culprit as I did not upgrade my low-level video driver when upgrading to 9.1 (I'm using a locally compiled version of Nvidia's proprietary driver). I'll keep you posted on results. /Peter -- http://www.linearity.org/turtle/contact.html ``If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. If we're a humble nation but strong, they'll welcome us.''--George W. Bush
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