machine hangs after buying new monitor
OK quickly before it hangs again.. can't be sure they're related, but it only started hanging after I set up the new monitor.. new monitor means new modelines etc., so I guess it could have something to do with my ati xpert 98 putting out higher bandwidth.. or not at all. It did hang three times with no X running though: one kernel panic after rebooting from the first hang, then it hung during fsck, then it hung at the login prompt after entering runlevel 1. It's hung about six times in the past two hours. A few days ago I tinkered with the cpu (put in a new fan) but no problems until now. Also I reinstalled sendmail last night, and installed mutt. OK, I have no idea. Tried rerunning lilo (in case a bit got flipped in the boot image) as well as another kernel from floppy, no go. Any suggestions on how to debug this welcome. Not even sure which logs to look through and what for.. -chris
Re: machine hangs after buying new monitor
Bad news.. rebooted with a DOS 6.22 floppy, went for dinner, came back: machine frozen, with message Divide overflow on the console. This is a 2 month old Pentium III 500E, never overclocked, never overheated AFAIK. I did change the cooler on it a few days back though, wonder if I broke something, and if I did, why it took three days to manifest itself. Certainly the new cooler seemed to work well (~34 C). Will try again with old monitor, meanwhile any suggestions welcome (e.g. how to get a refund for my broken Pentium if applicable) -chris Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK quickly before it hangs again.. can't be sure they're related, but it only started hanging after I set up the new monitor.. new monitor means new modelines etc., so I guess it could have something to do with my ati xpert 98 putting out higher bandwidth.. or not at all. It did hang three times with no X running though: one kernel panic after rebooting from the first hang, then it hung during fsck, then it hung at the login prompt after entering runlevel 1. It's hung about six times in the past two hours. A few days ago I tinkered with the cpu (put in a new fan) but no problems until now. Also I reinstalled sendmail last night, and installed mutt. OK, I have no idea. Tried rerunning lilo (in case a bit got flipped in the boot image) as well as another kernel from floppy, no go. Any suggestions on how to debug this welcome. Not even sure which logs to look through and what for.. -chris
Re: machine hangs after buying new monitor
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:49:11PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: OK quickly before it hangs again.. can't be sure they're related, but it only started hanging after I set up the new monitor.. new monitor means new modelines etc., so I guess it could have something to do with my ati xpert 98 putting out higher bandwidth.. or not at all. It did hang three times with no X running IMHO the worst thing that can happen if you change your monitor is that the monitor itself might break and not display anything at all. It is a passive device which is not able to influence the Computer in any way. though: one kernel panic after rebooting from the first hang, then it hung during fsck, then it hung at the login prompt after entering runlevel 1. It's hung about six times in the past two hours. A few days ago I tinkered with the cpu (put in a new fan) but no problems until now. Also I reinstalled sendmail last night, and installed mutt. OK, I have no idea. Tried rerunning lilo (in case a bit got flipped in the boot image) as well as another kernel from floppy, no go. Any suggestions on how to debug this welcome. Not even sure which logs to look through and what for.. -chris Check the following: 1. RAM Look for the nice tool memtest86 (http://freshmeat.net; 2. HD Use badblocks to check if you have got any 3. CPU-fan Check if it does sit on the CPU perfectly, maybe there is a little space in there and it gets too hot. Might very well be the reason. HTH, Phil
