I have a similar problem and it is VERY annoying. I have a suspicion it has something to do with the temperature of the cpu - at least in my case. A friend put the thermo tape on and heatsink - he's a careless bastard. The problem seems to happen every time when encoding video - something that really needs cpu grunt. Try transcoding in either windoze or linux and if you have a similar problem then it will surface. The thing is not that linux is less stable, rather that it gets better usage out of the cpu and works it harder.
I would be interested to know as now even with the fan on full-bore it happens for me! Bloody annoying!
Cheers
Anton
ps I was told the cure was new thermo tape - haven't had the time to change it but will try in the next couple of weeks...
Tony S. Sykes wrote:
Hertas,
I think this is an Asus problem as I have the same MB as you and am having problems with Mandrake. I have not been able to find the cause yet, but W2k is stable (unusually).
Tony.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??
Dear Friends ,
I have Asus A7n8x-deluxe , 2500 + athlon and Asus FX 5600 vga card. I installed Mandrake 9.2 and I also installed latest original mainboard and vga drivers from Nvidia's site. Everything ( even 3com lan adapter ) works fine. I see no fail message during boot -up. I also installed some styles( aqua ) from www.kde-look.org and normally there seems no any error. But my system crashes randomly ( stops responding , no mouse and no keyboard !! ) . I experienced this while I was scrolling with mouse ( mouse stopped suddenly ) . This happened twice in 3 hours. When I was using Win XP I had the same problem ( The system crashed randomly in 3 hours or sometimes did not crash at all several days. I mean This happened randomly . But after installing latest XP drivers for mobo and VGA I did not experience any crash since 7 days of hardwork on XP. It seems It is OK on XP , but how about on Mandrake 9.2 ??. My rams are Kingston. My power supply unit is 400 W Zalman.
Is there any possibility of hardware failure if so how can I understand ?? And if the reason is somehow Mandrake 9.2 ; I heard always that linux is much more stable , so what is this ?????
And what can I do if such crash happens on Mandrake ? should I wait ? or should I reset the computer ?? since keyboard and mouse does not respond.
Thanks..
Hertas.
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