On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:39:14PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:39, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 07 Feb 2003, Scott Henson wrote: > > > The past few days I have been experiencing some hard lock-ups on my > > > computer and I was wondering if anyone had an idea of what was going > > > on. Basically the screen freezes and the caps lock and scroll lock > > > lights blink about once a second. The box will not respond to anything > > > including network traffic. I am using kernel 2.4.21-pre3-ac5, but it > > > also happens under 2.4.20 and a few others. All I have in my logs is > > > this. > > > > > > > > > Have you recently opened the case for any reason? I had exactly these > > symptoms recently and eventually found it was due to my having displaced > > the data cables to the hard drives slightly. It was particularly > > difficult to diagnose because I had just upgraded my CPU with an > > Upgradeware adapter and naturally assumed at first that the trouble > > was there. I even replaced the PSU, thinking it might be that, but the > > roblem persisted at intervals. It finally disappeared after I unplugged > > all the data cables and put them back. > > Nope, but the problem seems to have gone away for now. It seems to > happen every few months and I would really like to track it down. > Usually if I let the machine sleep(turn it off) for a night, it is all > better the next morning. I just find it really weird and annoying and > would like to figure out why it is doing it. Maybe its just something > weird about my hardware. Thanks anyway.
That does sound like a dodgy-connection problem. Try the unplugging and replugging of data cables mentioned above - do the PCI(/AGP) cards too. This tends to clean the contacts and resolves a lot of dodgy-connection problems. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]