On Thu, Aug 07, 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
>       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

Two random things that have caused freezes for me:

 - RAM speed being slower than the front bus speed

 - using the Red Hat provided eepro100 driver for my network card rather
   than the Intel e100 driver. Switching to the e100 driver stopped the
   crashes.

The latter should be easy to pick though -- freezes will occur during
network activity (a CVS checkin of 1000 files was a 100% reliable
trigger).

-Mary
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