On Tuesday 19 March 2002 02:32 am, you wrote: > > David Guntner wrote: > > > This isn't specifically a Mandrake thing, but I'm hoping that > > > someone here can give me some pointers to help out. > > > > > > I'm running ML 8.1 on my Linux box, and for the last several > > > days, my system as just stopped. Locked up pretty completely. > > > I'll hit the reset button to restart the system, and it will run > > > for more-or-less 24 hours and then just halt again. The > > > motherboard is an Epox EP-MVP3G with an AMD K6-2 CPU in it. I > > > was running a 550MHz chip, and fell back to an older 350MHz chip > > > thinking that it might be the CPU dieing on me, but that hasn't > > > helped. I've run Memtest-86 on the machine, and it doesn't > > > report problems with any of my RAM SIMMs. I'm beginning to have > > > the Creeping Feeling Of Doom that the motherboard is dieing on > > > me, but I'd like to get a second opinion before I go out hunting > > > down another K6-2 compatible Socket 7 motherboard. Educated > > > opinions welcomed and appreciated. :-) > > > > > > --Dave
Dave, it definetly sounds like a hardware problem. It sounds like something gets heated up after 24 hours then fails. It could be a one of several things. Don't flame me for this, but, have you tried a different OS to see if it does the same thing? If so, then it's got to be a hardware problem. I would investigate the RAM, then the motherboard. I don't know how much ram you have, but if you could beg, borrow or steal some other ram, swap yours out then run it for a couple of days. If it doesn't lock up, then I guess we know the problem. If it still does it it's time to look at the mb. After that I'm out of ideas. Best of luck! -- Jonathan Dlouhy Tuesday, March 19, 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Don't be so humble, you're not that great. -Golda Meir ---------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.1
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