it could be LOTS of things. it could be some sort of hardware problem like bad ram, a screwy hard drive, CPU overheating, or a bad USB chip. to get useful help you'll want to come up with as much detail as you can: is there any pattern to the crashing? what software are you running? what are you doing? can you log in via telnet or get web pages from another machine? has it always crashed or did it just start? is it getting worse or more frequent? can you boot it into another OS and does it crash then? was the computer ever in New Jersey? do you have a turtle? the more the better. good luck, G on 11/19/00 10:25 PM, michael rogers wrote: > i'm absolutely clueless. linux simply likes to crash on me. 7.1 and > 7.2 have both been doing it and i don't know why. and the thing i love > about linux is the stability! > > so, if anyone knows where such things are logged by the system, or if i > need to turn logging on, or what could possibly doing this, i'll love > you forever. if need be i'll supply a list of my hardware, etc. but > geez! > > when it crashes, it DIES. i have an MS intellimouse optical, the > 5-button mouse with the 'purdy' red light, and when it dies, even the > light goes out. the display still shows, but there is no response, > coma-style. > > help, please. > michael j. rogers. > > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. >
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