I aggree with Gustav for whats its worth. I'd use memtest which I've used
to check the memory and is easy to use. I've had this problem and it was
memory. I bought dodgy memory and was told by a pc engineer if it is dodgy
it takes 6 months to fail. Hope this helps-not very good news. NH
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>From: Gustav Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Is this a hardware or software problem?
>Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2000, 2:20 pm
>
>Paul,
>
>You may want to test your memory modules. Search for memtest86 on
>freshmeat.
>
>Regards
>Gustav
>
>"Kaplan, Paul" wrote:
>>
>> Ever since I installed RH 5.1 and subsequently RH 6.0 on a laptop, I have
>> had the following problem. Under X (with any of KDE, FVWM, or Gnome), but
>> not at the console, the keyboard and mouse occasionally freeze for no
>> apparent reason. The system continues to process jobs, but the only way out
>> is to reboot. I was thinking that this might be an X problem until I
>> remembered that under Windows95 on the same machine, the system would
>> occasionally freeze. When I look in /var/log/messages, there is no clue to
>> what is going on...all the entries prior to the freeze appear to be for jobs
>> that were completed, and these are followed by the rebooting messages. The
>> problem is intermittent, in that I haven't figured out a reproducible way of
>> bringing it on.
>> Any ideas either to fix or to figure out what the problem is?
>> TIA
>> Paul
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