"Joseph S. Gardner" wrote:
>
> I'm sure it's hung. Mouse is dead, can't Ctrl+Alt+Backspace,
> Ctrl+Alt+Delete, can't change workspace nothin'
>
> I finally got home to check this thing out and man was this thing locked
> up. Had the wife leave it on just so I could give it a bash (pun
> intended 8-)) but no-go. Finally had to hit the reset button and during
> reboot it would do the following
>
> boot:
> Loading linux.....
> Uncompressing linux..
>
> CRC error
> --System halted
>
> it would do this no matter how I tried rebooting (reset button, big red
> help switch, etc..) anyhow I finally got disgusted with it and just shut
> it down and walked away butttt... curiosity got the best of me and I
> went back to it after 10 minutes and viola, it's alive.
>
> >From what I can find a CRC error is Cyclic Redunancy Check but I have no
> clue what it means or what caused it. I can tell you that the machine
> has been up and running almost flawlessly 24/7 since October.
>
> TIA
>
>
I had the same thing happen to me before...
I also found out that on linux, you should never use the RESET button on the
box...
I just turned off the power switch and wait for aboout a minute so mem is
emtied and stuff and powered back up the system and it booted back up as if
nothing ever happened...
