Just thought I'd wait long enough before claiming it was solved again :)
For reference, the original email is below. Essentially I had a problem where my system would freeze up every day or two (if not multiple times during the day). Suspects were temperature, PSU, RAM, motherboard, etc. Anyway, after cancelling out all of these I decided "what if it's something I'm loading with Gentoo, or perhaps one of its many kernel patches that is causing the crashes?" so I decided to run a spare RedHat 7.3 HDD I had lying around for a few days and saw no crashes.
So I killed Gentoo, installed RedHat 9 and been running fine ever since.
I'm not going to attack Gentoo as it may have been my particular setup. Besides, I'm far happier not having to compile every package. The novelty wore off :)
Thanks to all who contributed to my problem.
Regards, Gonzalo
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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. -------------- cut ----------------
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