Hello, I've been running Debian stable for a few months without any major issues. In the past week, Firefox (from backports.org) started closing (seemingly) randomly. The entire computer has also hung once or twice, and a couple of times, upon closing Firefox, X crashed. X has also crashed a couple of times when Firefox was not running. Incidentally, I have a Windows 2000 partition that has also started refusing to boot.
Since all of these problems started occurring simultaneously, and since multiple pieces of software (across separate partitions!) have been playing up, I believe this is most likely a hardware problem. Generally, the system is capable of staying up, although it has locked completely once or twice. The system specs: AthlonXP 2400+ 1 gigabyte of RAM GeForce TI4200 The problem isn't always immediately apparent. I can have Firefox browsing fine for a couple of hours before crashing, and then it will continue crashing from there. I currently suspect the problem may be one of the following: (a) Faulty RAM modules. (b) Heat related (I have yet to open the system up to see that all fans are running). (c) Faulty motherboard. I initially thought that the problem may be the HDD failing, but I would expect that to cause problems more with loading programs, rather than running them. Are there any diagnostic tools (preferably in the stable tree) that can help me find the source of this problem, or does anyone have any suggestions that might help me out? Thanks very much for your time, James Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
