On Sunday 23 March 2003 09:30 pm, David E. Fox decided to hunt and peck on the 
keyboard and typed:
> > locks up.  No way out, that I could find except to hit the reset switch.
> > I've had this happen before recently when I was converting some .mp3s to
> > .wav's. Any idea what could be causing this?
>
> That's a kernel panic. I saw it discussed here a few weeks ago - some
> where your kernel panicked and decided to oscillate the keyboard
> blinkenlights. ISTR the code is somewhere in panic.c.
>
> Odd that it would happen during mp3/wav conversion. That's somewhat
> stressful, but IMHO your motherboard/CPU/memory combination may leave
> something to be desired. What happens for instance when you run
> cpuburn? Have you run memtest?

Haven't run either.  Which memtest should I install, memtester-2.93.1-3mdk or 
memtest86-3.0-2mdk.  I'm wondering though if Xscreensaver didn't have 
something to do with this.  I also had a problem a week or so ago with the 
system rebooting itself. I never did catch it in the act though.  I've since 
gone back to running one of the screensavers installed with mdk 9.0 and 
haven't had any problems so far.


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  Regards
  Chris
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