> I have a Gateway 2000 9500 laptop, and have successfully installed  RH
> 7.1.  A couple of nights ago, I left the laptop logged into KDE,  and
> went to do something else, and when I returned, the screen was  blank. 
> I tried to get it to wake up using the mouse and keyboard, but  it
> wouldn't.  I ended up shutting off the power.
> 
> The problem occurred when I restarted it.  LILO was doing its thing, 
> and "Loading Linux" came up and went through its "dots", but when  the
> loading of initrd began, a couple of "dots" in, I got a "crc error - 
> System halted" message.  I tried restarting again, and it booted fine.
> 
> Since then, this has happened intermittently.  Any ideas or 
> suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Joe

First try the usual checks:
download and run memtest86
run a full read "badblocks" of all partitons
run "rpm -V kernel" & "rpm -Va" (you'll get a lot of output to interpret)

-Cheers
-Andrew
--
MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!



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