On Saturday 06 December 2003 10:46 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 08:22, Ernie Schroder wrote: > > This machine (Athlon XP-2100/512Megs RAM Leadtech K7NCR18D Pro > > board) is still crashing. the average uptime has been about 5 > > hours. > > > > Other possible solutions would be appreciated. > > Hi Ernie, > Sorry it's still happening for you. It is for me also. We have > similar systems. I'm using an A7V333-X MB, Athlon-XP 2600+, 512MB. > I have determined that I cannot run this reliably right now with > SetiAtHome running. Once I stopped that (I do use it on 3 other > Gentoo boxes) my crashes decreased but did not go away. I'm > crashing once a day now.
Ihad been running gtk-gnutella constantly both before and after the crashes started, but no [EMAIL PROTECTED] With gnutella not running crashes are still happening at about the same rate. > > Just in the last few days I started having some strange video > stuff happening when I first boot the machine in the morning. It > stops in a few minutes, so I'm thinking that may be a temperature > related problem with the video card. I have stopped leaving the > machine unattended in X, meaning log out and don't use > xscreensaver, and I have only had one crash in the last 3 days. Good point, but not likely my problem. The GeForce 4 is running at about 100 Degrees F and the fan is running fine. I've disabled screensavers as well. > > I'm going to dig in a bit this weekend and maybe swap video > cards around between machines and see what happens. I'm hoping my > problem is this card going bad and I'll just end up replacing that > as opposed to the MB. I might try swapping some hardware myself, but the fact that Knoppix, Overclockix and Windowmaker all seem stable makes me think that KDE is the problem > > Give some thought to what hardware you might be able to swap > between machines. If you crash every few hours it should be pretty > easy to find which one, if any, is the root cause of a hardware > related crash. Thanks for the input Mark > > Good luck, > Mark > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
