On Wednesday 27 August 2003 12:55 pm, Pupeno wrote: > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 13:24, Steven Elling wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 11:09, Pupeno wrote: > > > I'm having total and random freezes... The mouse pointer > > > disappear, the keyboard doesn't do anything (not even pressing > > > Caps Lock turns the light on or off), can anybody give me any > > > clue of where can I start looking for the problem ? > > > Thank you. > > > > I assume you are using X (Gnome / KDE / etc.). My system used to > > kernel panic then halt and while in X I would not see that the > > system did. I only noticed the kernel panic and halt while working > > at the console one day. After I saw it, I ran memtest86 and found I > > had some bad memory. Boot off the LiveCD and run memtest86 (it is > > a boot option). > > I suspect it is the RAM... I run memtest86 for about 4 hours without > finding any problem and I had to use the computer... do you think > there are big chances of memory problems not appearing in the first > tests and appearing in the latter one with memtest86 ? > Thank you. > -- > Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.kde.org > --- > Help the hungry children of Argentina, > please go to (and make it your homepage): > http://www.porloschicos.com/servlet/PorLosChicos?comando=donar
Another thing I thought of.... on another machine I had problems when I used a glx screensaver. I didn't look for why but just stopped using them. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
