On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:04:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > memtest86 - yup. No problems revealed. > > heating - I instrumented the box with "logger `acpi -tB`" running on a > 2-second loop. Temp was normal for the one freeze I captured. > > bad caps - oh my! But as this is a laptop I will resist opening it up as > long as possible. > > For various reasons I am semi-suspecting the wireless driver (rt2500).
Third party kernel drivers are definitely suspect. I was thinking that third party video drivers are the main culprit, but you said it happens with and without X. Forgot about the wireless driver. Try to see if the driver has a module option for verbose/debugging mode and see if you can correlate it's output with the crashing. Or just do what someone else suggested and boot off a live installation disk without the driver. - Rob .
