System freezes unexpectedly: Continued

1999-08-12 Thread Chris Mayes
Well, I had upgraded my kernel, futzed with my BIOS settings, and tried anything else I thought might help, but I am still getting system lockups. >From what the logs indicate, the crash happened at around 5 a.m. this morning. I checked on it at 9:30. The screen blanker had been on, so I could

Re: System freezes unexpectedly

1999-07-28 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 03:29:40PM -0400, Chris Mayes wrote > Hello, everyone. Well, I had hoped that the problem was a freak occurrence, > but it's happening about 2-3 times a week, now. Unfortunately, there isn't > much fanfare, no flurry of error messages. Nearly every time I've > encounte

Re: System freezes unexpectedly

1999-07-28 Thread Stuart Ballard
Chris Mayes wrote: > > Hello, everyone. Well, I had hoped that the problem was a freak occurrence, > but it's happening about 2-3 times a week, now. Unfortunately, there isn't > much fanfare, no flurry of error messages. Nearly every time I've encountered > a system freeze, the screen had been

Re: System freezes unexpectedly

1999-07-27 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Chris Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the most recent time, I was actually sitting at my desk working on stuff > when the system froze. Everything stopped. I couldn't kill the X server or > switch consoles. The thing was totally frozen. I've checked the logs, but I You could try

Re: System freezes unexpectedly

1999-07-27 Thread John Foster
Chris Mayes wrote: > > Hello, everyone. Well, I had hoped that the problem was a freak occurrence, > but it's happening about 2-3 times a week, now. Unfortunately, there isn't > much fanfare, no flurry of error messages. Nearly every time I've encountered > a system freeze, the screen had been

Re: System freezes unexpectedly

1999-07-27 Thread Mark Buda
> "Chris" == Chris Mayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> [...] The thing was totally frozen. [...] Chris> Does anyone have any suggestions for diagnosing Chris> and possibly fixing this problem? Run a memory test. I suggest "memtest86" in the hwtools package, if you're using an

System freezes unexpectedly

1999-07-27 Thread Chris Mayes
Hello, everyone. Well, I had hoped that the problem was a freak occurrence, but it's happening about 2-3 times a week, now. Unfortunately, there isn't much fanfare, no flurry of error messages. Nearly every time I've encountered a system freeze, the screen had been blanked, so I couldn't see