Freezes like that are nearly always cpu temp related IMHO, make sure it's got a good fan / heatsink and that thermal paste has been used, if the heatsink came with paste on it make sure the sticker over the paste was removed :-).
jeremyb. > From: C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/10/24 Thu PM 02:33:46 GMT+13:00 > To: Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Brain picking - linux server > > My main linux box here is acting bloody weird. The specs are: > > Supermicro brand P4 motherboard > Pentium 4 at 1.5 GHz > 2 x 512 Mb dimms for 1Gb ram > Two IDE hard drives and an IDE CDROM > PCI S3 video card > PCI Netgear FA311 NIC > > Nothing particularly odd - but randomly (once a day or so) it freezes > solid. No ping response, no keyboard lights, no nothing. Only a hard > reset brings it back. > > Syslog simply displays the last messages on screen, often a call to > spamassassin. /var/log/* contains nothing at all unusual. It freezes > during the school day (IE, its under load) Never at night that I've > seen. > > The only clue I have is this - at the last reboot the machine claimed to > have 917000 Kb of ram, rather than the 1048576 Kb it normally claims. > Whats that a clue of? > > I've booted the box with mem=900M to see if that could help. Thoughts? > > > >
