Alex, Had a box myself that started doing this a couple of months ago. Turned out I had a bad block (sector? Transistor? not sure of the term) appear in my memory but it was high up in the list. As long as my box was sitting idle no problem. But once I started doing something and memory started being actively used. I would get these random freezes. I'd recommend running a memory testing program such as memtest on it for a few hours and see what's what. Note I've found from experience, mine and others, if you have more than one stick, check them one at a time other wise you won't know which one is bad. The programs tell you they found a problem but unless you understand the cryptic output as for location you will be at a loss for which stick is bad.
James On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 09:21, Alex Bennee wrote: > Hi, > > Until today my box (MDK 9.0) had been running fine. Now it locks up hard > at random points during the day requiring a power-cylcle to get it out > of this state. I suspect that apmd may be the culprit but its hard to > tell as I get no indication in the logs. One thing I have noticed though > is the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace sequence that is usually reserved to kill X > seems to put my machine into an halted state. > > The doesn't seem to be any way of disabling power managment from the > BIOS and I have uninstalled apmd and apm-scripts and am still getting > the same problem. Is there any way to stop this hi-jacking going on? > Who's trapping it and killing my system? > > -- > Alex Bennee > Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd > The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my > employer > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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