Hi, I have a machine (naturally a fairly important one) which I built and which is fairly unstable -- give it ten to twenty days, and it will suffer a video lock up or a disk error that forces a reboot.
FIC AZ11 with a VIA KT133 chipset. Athlon 900 MHz 768MB PC100 RAM Voodoo3 3000 AGP card Maxtor 92049U6 (20G 7200 RPM disk), etx3fs on all partitions. Polaroid CD-RW IDE3212 (2) Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX PCI tulip NICs The system runs MDK 9.0 and ran 8.2 before that. I keep an eye on it with lm_sensors, and it doesn't go over 60C, so I've tentatively ruled CPU heat out as a cause. I've also run memtest86 several times for runs of up to 12 hours, with no RAM problems detected. today's reboot was caused by a corrupt wtmp that prevented logins. fsck fixed it. At this point, I'm suspecting the motherboard's IDE controller, the hard disk itself, the video card, the RAM, gremlins :-) I'm just not sure where to go next in troubleshooting the system, and I don't want to replace everything one part at a time. any ideas for narrowing this down? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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