On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:00:16PM -0500, J. Milgram wrote:
> My too-new-to-be-doing-that laptop has started freezing at random
> intervals, between a minute and a few hours after boot. Am doing all the
> obvious (to me) things to debug but does anyone have any tricks to share?
First thoughts: hardware problem
1) mem problem - try running memtest86
2) heating problem (less likely if it freezes when not doing anything)
check out the lm sensors package; IIRC, they have a kernel
warning setting
3) new favorite hardware problem: bad capacitors
http://www.badcaps.com
- Rob
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PS Yay Ben for being the other person who uses the tty+syslog trick :-)
