> > > Hi Folks > > Let me tell you what happened before I start asking questions. > > On Wednesday night about 630pm I had the computer booted using linux, i told > it to update which it was doing through the night, in the morning i booted > it into windows xp where it stayed until i got home at about 6:30pm on > thursday where my mandrake 8.2 discs where waiting on me. I updated my > distro , got my [rinter working (woo hoo) and staretd it updating again. At > about 2:30am Friday i told linux to reboot into windows, and it got stuck > shutting down the usb devices. > > It hung not doing anything, so i hit the reset switch, wouldn't reset. So i > flicked the power off, and there started my problem, the fecking thing would > not come back on again. I have now built another machine from spare parts, > maybe not the fastest in the world, but functional. My old machine would not > power back up again. Although my original Hard disks still work, but my > floppy seems to on the blink, but that could be because i bent one of the > pins when i wa transferring it > > To cut a long story short i just got it working again, by reseting the bios, > 2 days after it happened. > > Could this have been caued by linux or could it have been caused by > coincedence, since it was up for nearly 30 hours? ( People may remember my > post abou thge noisy fan, so it may have overheated) > > Can anyone offer any solutions, unfortunatly to get it working again i have > had to reformat my linux partition, so i have no logs of what happened. > > Could it maybe have happened because i updated the distro from 7.2 to 8.1 > instead of doing a fresh install? and it somehow affected the usb drivers? > > Could it happen again?? > > Is linux that powerful that it can rewrite the bios settings? > > Anyone have any solutions? theories? > > I wanted to send this email before i rebuilt my normal computer, (this one i > am using is a p200 with 64mb ram, hellish slow using winxp) and my normal > one is a p3 800 with 312mb ram, > > Please excuse the spelling as I am using web based mail for this till i get > email set up properly again, and also i am using a lower res than i normally > use so it may look distorted. > > Thanks in Advance > Phil > Hmmm, I have had the similar problem on Asus KV7 mobo and kernel betwean 2.4.3 to 2.4.10 with ACPI and 8139too - RealTek 8139 NIC ( with MPIO and channel equalization compiled in )
My machine botted up very slow - and after reboot BIOS was cleared. It seems like a bug in thease kernels ( either ACPI or 8139too or both ). Try to compile newest one ( 2.4.17 at this point ( or 18-pre3 that I recommend ) and problem should disapeard. Poluvex > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
