The strange blinkenlights, plus recent case swap, make it sound
like a hardware problem.
Check all cables, reseat all cards, check for cracks in the mobo,
check the bus mountings (esp. that USB with the intermittent power
loss). Check that the new case has sufficient cooling and that all the
fans are plugged in and running (maybe your system is overheating in the
new box).
On 10/18/2010 08:43 PM, Mike Stunes wrote:
Hi all,
I'm having some issues with random hard lockups on my Arch Linux box,
2.6.35 kernel. Sometimes random sound will start spewing out of the
speakers, sometimes my USB mouse/keyboard will completely lose power,
sometimes pressing a key on the keyboard will make NumLock light up as
long as the key is pressed. No blinking lights on the keyboard or
anything like that though.
I thought it might have been MythTV (Hauppauge HVR-1800), but I've
disabled it, no luck.
Also thought it might have been that I recently transplanted my computer
into a new case (don't think this happened at all with the old one). I
scratched up the motherboard a bit trying to get one of the mounting
screws out, but it seems that everything in the vicinity of the screw
hole is just a giant ground pad--can't imagine how scratching that a bit
would cause any problems.
Motherboard is (I think) a Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3; proc is a Core i7-860.
I'll start running memtest86+ soon and see if anything interesting comes
up.
Does anybody know what might be wrong, or how I can get some more useful
information?
Thanks much!
Mike
