Aaron Burt wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:51:55PM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: > >> The computer is a built-box, with an Azus P5NSLI motherboard, somewhere >> between one to three years old. Any time it gets left on too long it >> resets. Working on it tonight, I noticed that if you're in Linux when >> this happens you get the two blinking keyboard lights which (I think, at >> least) indicates a kernel panic; they stay on for about ten seconds >> before the thing reboots. >> > > Blank screen, or what? Yes, the blinking lights are kernel panic. > > Like everyone else said, it's probably a heat issue, but I would suggest > (a) checking the video card heat sink (if it's separate) and > (b) reseating RAM, PCI and AGP boards, and (if not too scary) the CPU. > (c) Running memtest and CPUburn. > > Everything freezes in place -- no screen blank. Then the lights start blinking and I start cussing.
We've reseated the RAM -- both because we wanted to do the check, and because we moved some hard drives around and the memory is physically large -- re-gooped the CPU heat sink, and run memtest. I'll try the other things. At this point I'm thinking it's either a loose connection or a dried out cap, because the more I use it the more I note that the problem occasionally happens right at startup even when the system is cold. I suspect that it's time for a new motherboard and/or processor -- I just wish I had a way to tell which one without buying lots of parts to swap. A Freegeek used processor may be in this system's near future, though. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
