it would be helpful to know if the machine has ever been running good under another distro/OS or if its a 'new' machine..
install lm_sensors on the machine for some additional info about the mainboard like voltage and temp and stuff. i also find running X on the screen with status monitors is good, when my BP6 crashes i can usually always see what was going on when it crashed from mem/cpu load to cpu/MB temp to time it crashed etc. it may also be worth a shot to install another OS on it to see if it does the same..could try one of the floppy based linux distros that installs into memory or the QNX demo (www.qnx.com) which also loads into memory. also it may be worth trying to crash it by increasing the cpu and i/o load by loading multiple copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1 copy for every 10-15MB of ram you have. make the machine work it's ass off for a while and see if it holds up for the 24 hours, or if it crashes real quick. i can usually get about 15 million disk writes out in a 2-3 day period with a good amount of seti going. it stresses the IDE bus to the limits(and past some, ive had machines reset the ide bus a few times during that) nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote: wind >Hi, wind > wind >My debian (woody, 2.2.14) box is crashing after 24 to 48 hours of wind >operation. The screen goes black but keeps sync, no network wind >connectivity. wind > wind >Tried with two different motherboards (EPox EP-MVP3C) with the same wind >behavior. Don't have the spare parts to replace the other components wind >(SCSI card, drives, memory, K6-200), so I was wondering if anyone wind >could give me an idea to what this could be? wind > wind >syslog is unfortunately not of much use: wind > wind >Feb 2 00:49:04 gateway ntpd_initres[431]: config_timer: 0->2 wind >[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@Feb 2 09:42:23 gateway syslogd 1.3-3#33: restart. wind >Feb 2 09:42:23 gateway kernel: klogd 1.3-3#33, log source = /proc/kmsg started. wind > wind > wind >/Allan wind >-- wind >Allan M. Wind Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wind >P.O. Box 2022 Phone: 781.279.4513 (home) wind >Woburn, MA 01888-0022 Phone: 781.274.7000 ext. 368 (work) wind > wind > wind >-- wind >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null wind > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 12:50pm up 167 days, 1:00, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 1.10, 1.08