On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, The awesome and feared [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented... > > well, I went back into the bios and took the drives off "auto" and put > the settings in manually, and I haven't had a problem yet, but I haven't > been able to duplicate the damn thing at all up to this point. It's > locked after a reboot, on the console logon screen; once while loading a > pdf file in phoenix/mozilla-firebird, once while loading mail > (sylpheed-claws) with the browser open, once while building a kernel, > once while emerging openoffice, etc. I repeat the steps and it works > fine. go figure. I am thinking maybe it's disk access related at this > point, but that's a guess. All the above point out that the machine fails while under load, several possibilites exist the common one is bad ram, please download memtest86 and try checking your memory. As for the disk you can check it and see if there is a problem, but its unlikely todays IDE drives seem reliable beasts.
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