I'm experiencing complete (and random) system freezes every day or two. I've not found a pattern yet, it happens at random. System specs as follows:
Athlon 1800+ CPU 256MB DDR Matrox G400 Dualhead 2 x HDD 2 x SCSI CDROM 1 x FDD
First I thought it was maybe overheating so I installed lm-sensors. It didn't seem to be overheating, so I left it running for a while and the levels continued to look OK. It was then suggested to me that maybe my PSU was either not powerful enough or dodgy. It was only a 200W so I went out and bought a 320W PSU. It looked promising as it didn't crash for *gasp* 4 days! but it froze on me twice last night. Since then, I've been running memtest. 8 hours & 46 passes later with no errors, I'm thinking it's not the RAM (the CPU, mobo and RAM are all brand new). My system was fine before I upgraded to a new mobo/CPU.
FWIW, the system is running Gentoo kernel 2.4.19, and also when I say system freeze I mean the system just locks up. Can't press CTRL-ALT-F1, can't ping it, etc.
As you can imagine it's really annoying so I was hoping someone could shed some light on this.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards, Gonzalo
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