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From: Joseph S. Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] lots of crashes???
I encountered a VERY similar problem and it turned out that the
video
card was not seated completely. I had just installed a new
video card
and hard-drive and followed up with an upgrade to 7.02.
Netscape would
crash aLOT and since I had not experienced any problems with
the prior
6.1 version I assumed it was Netscape not realizing that I
hadn't run
the new hardware very long before I upgraded from 6.1 to 7.02.
I ended up having to cut some of the bottom of the mounting
bracket off
of the video card before I could get it to seat properly.
*Bill replies*
Very interesting. As far as I can tell Linux is just very very
stable, so when people get these stability problems it is
pretty well always the hardware. It is only pure chance I knew
that as my dad had a Windows machine that used to do these
random crashes too, and it turned out to be in his case the
memory. I hear that Linux is basically good for about 400
days, then some counter inside turns over back to 0 and mucks
everything up. I've got a 486 on as I type that has an uptime
of about 2 weeks now, so I'll see how far I get with it and
whether it can go the distance.
Regards,
Bill.
