> Ok, sorry to have wasted bandwidth and brain cells, I'm back to 4.1 and > it still freezes. I really dunno why it fails now. I tried changing > kernel versions, even reflashing motherboard bios to all possible > revisions ... no way, it still freezes. > I noticed the nvidia uses the same pirq than my network card, but even > when I remove it (the nvidia), my pc still fails. > > It seems really bound to X activity: I can compile kernels or do > otherwise cpu-intensive tasks for hours without problems, but if I use > galeon or xine or other X-intensive tasks, it freezes after a while > (seconds or minutes or more). > > Does any of you have experience about such failures ? Can it be > hardware-related ? BIOS-related ? I didn't change my hardware and it was > working very well a month ago.
Yes, I have a friend who's computer does this. If he doesn't use X his computer will run for days, in fact if he doesn't run X his computer will run for days. But he can walk over and sit down and touch the mouse and a few minutes later his box just dies. Never at a particular time, it seemed sound related for a while, but it's not because sometimes it does it with out sound.It did it in windows 98, ME, and 2k, as well as linux. Started about a year ago. But he has k6-2 400, NVidia TNT2. He's tried swapping memory and cpu and video card, and it wasn't any of those. Only thing left is mother board. But just similar symptoms, so I couldn't say if it's the same boat your in. Hope that helps, Let me know if you figure it out. Thanks, Josie Imlay > > _______________________________________________ > Xpert mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert > _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
