My machine at workis a 7600/132 with a second drive and a ups board. Lately it has been locking up regularly but for no obvious reason. When this happens the usb mouse is still active, but the machine doesn't respond. The same thing occurs when booted from a Norton disk, which to me suggests hardware and excludes a usb problem.
Not necessarily, it could be the USB card itself crapping out.
Do the usual: Open it up, blow out all the dust rhinos out with dry canned air, reseat everything: CPU, cables, RAM, cache, pci cards.
If this doesn't work yank the USB card.
If this doesn't work yank half the memory.
If this doesn't work, replace the installed memory with the other half.
If *that* doesn't work it's either a weird mobo or processor failure and you're on to replacing one or the other. (I say weiord because those usually freeze a system *solid*)
Is one or the other drives thrashing a lot when it freezes? It could be incipient disk problems.
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