If this always happens under Linux (not X11) and never Windows, are you using memory chips with different timings? Windows is much more tolerant of this than Linux. And if the kernel crashes, there's no-one around to write error messages...
RichardA Andrew Berry, Sunday 02 June 2002 21:06: > I am running: > > Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. > > Hardware: > P166 MMX > 64 Mb Ram > 120 Mb Swap > S3 Virge 2D card > Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card > Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. > > My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything > (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. > I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I > have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations > StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I > don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, > and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in > some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. > > My questions: > 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? > 2. What specific log files should I look at? > 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > ________________________________________________ > Get your own "800" number > Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more > http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag
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