This is definitely a hardware issue, seeing as how its reproducable across different OS's. I suspect the power outage fried something, the question now is what. I'd suggest running memtest86 for at least 24 hours. This might help pin down the source of the problem. Alternatively, if you have spare memory, try swapping known good memory into the system, and see if the instability persists. Right now, i'm leaning towards either the memory or CPU as the culprits.
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Bob Raymond wrote: > Hi, > > Details of situation: > > Kernel 2.4.19-xfs won't boot after a power outage (that lasted only 5 secs!) > Kernel 2.5.42-ac1 locks up sometimes, and I can't get KDE, Gnome, etc., to > start before it oopses, and now it, along with 2.5.41-ac2 (which always > worked before) and 2.5.40-bk5, sometimes oops even before X can start. > However, sometimes in the middle of booting any kernel, the system shuts > itself off, and I get the "CPU overclock is failed" message. I ran FreeBSD > all through the night, because I can at least check e-mail, etc. there, and > it locked up in the middle of the night as well. I checked CPU/System temps > in the BIOS and got 33C - 34C for the CPU, 29-34C for the system (it varied a > lot). I think my fan monitor actually is borken because it noted RPMS of > 9999, then 0, then back again. Anyone have any ideas of what might be wrong? > > BTW, none of the modules load in the 2.4.19-xfs kernel. Unfortunately I lost > the XFS patches for my 2.4.19 kernel and wvdial and my system aren't getting > along at this point (KPPP won't work if I get an oops too early to get into > KDE), so a kernel recompile is out of the question for anything but the 2.5 > series right now. I also get an oops when GPM tries to load. Funny what one > little power outage can do to wreak havoc over an entire system :-( > > oh, yeah- hardware specs: > EPoX 8KTA3Pro, AMD Athlon TBird 1.4 (not o/c'ed), 512MB PC133 SDRAM > ATI Radeon 8500, Antec SX1240 case with 400watt PS, TB Santa Cruz (right now > Alsa modules for this won't load), Promise UDMA100 controller (FreeBSD is on > this), IBM Deathstar 60GXP 41GB as /dev/hda on /mnt/winxp, Maxtor something > or other 60GB as /dev/hdb on /, IBM Deathstar 120GXP 40GB as /dev/hde on > /mnt/freebsd. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
