On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:49:11PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > OK quickly before it hangs again.. > can't be sure they're related, but it only started hanging after I set > up the new monitor.. new monitor means new modelines etc., so I guess it > could have something to do with my ati xpert 98 putting out higher > bandwidth.. or not at all. It did hang three times with no X running
IMHO the worst thing that can happen if you change your monitor is that the monitor itself might break and not display anything at all. It is a passive device which is not able to influence the Computer in any way. > though: one kernel panic after rebooting from the first hang, then > it hung during fsck, then it hung at the login prompt after entering > runlevel 1. It's hung about six times in the past two hours. A few > days ago I tinkered with the cpu (put in a new fan) but no problems > until now. Also I reinstalled sendmail last night, and installed > mutt. OK, I have no idea. Tried rerunning lilo (in case a bit got > flipped in the boot image) as well as another kernel from floppy, no > go. Any suggestions on how to debug this welcome. Not even sure > which logs to look through and what for.. -chris Check the following: 1. RAM Look for the nice tool "memtest86" (http://freshmeat.net"; 2. HD Use "badblocks" to check if you have got any 3. CPU-fan Check if it does sit on the CPU perfectly, maybe there is a little space in there and it gets too hot. Might very well be the reason. HTH, Phil
