> > When I received the unit, it ran fine for many many months.=20
> > Then out of the blue it started to lock up for no reason every couple
> > of weeks. Now it can't go more than 12 hours.=20
>
> are you any closer to finding the problem?
>
Whats causing it, yea. Any farther in debugging/resolving, nope.
>
> I have the exact same symptoms on a 5501-70 (comBIOS ver. 1.32i) unit purch=
> ased last December.
> it woked flawlessly until March, but it is freezing up ever since in a rand=
> om fashion - sometimes once per week, yesterday 5 times. I'm using Gentoo L=
> inux with the latest 2.6 kernel.
>
> thank goodness for the watchdog kernel patch so I don't have to manually re=
> set the thing each time.
>
> I blamed the PSU and the wireless card first, changed them both (to meanwel=
> l RS-25-12 and intersil prism 200mW) with no results. memtest86+ gave me an=
> ok for all tests.
>
> what is interesting is that we have almost the same CF card, mine being a S=
> anDisk SDCFX3-8192 (Extreme III 8G).
>
> do you happen to have a different CF you could try in your setup?
>
I transfered it to a laptop hard drive and ran it off there. 10 minutes
later it locked up hard. Loaded a brand new OS (FreeBSD 5.5 to FreeBSD 7.0 .
Locked up 2 days later).
Tuc
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