On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Dave Fletcher wrote:

> I don't know if this helps, but may as well describe
> the crash itself. On an "init 5" in redhat 7.2, the
> system freezes almost instantly. I can sometimes type
> in a few characters of my login, and then I get pixel
> garbage and hard lockup. On mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 (BTW,
> I also tried the old 3.x.x version of X that mandrake
> can install) I can get further... I can login and work
> for about 4-5 minutes, sometimes longer if I'm lucky,
> and then same thing... pixel garbage and hard freeze.

> One last thing... this problem is just now manifesting
> itself after about a full year of total system
> stability. I was forced to reinstall the OS due to an
> unrelated disk problem. The OS is now installed on a
> completely different disk.

Did you add a new disk ?
I'm wondering if you have some sort of conflict (interrupts?)
between the new disk and the graphics card ?

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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