HI,
Although I yet have to try all the suggestions but I doubt that
the hardware might be at fault. I don't have a separate AGP card. Its
onboard. Moreover my system works perfectly fine in Win 98. Very very less
crashes compared to the reputaion of win98.
Anyway I wd try to run X with open case and see if anything gets hot. Can
it be due to HDD settings? I mean do I need to check the settings with
hdparm and see whether they are in compliance with the recommended ones.
I occasionally get these Spurious interrupt IRQ 7 messages. I don't know
what it means.
Regards,
Mukhben.
On 14 Nov 2002, Michael Dengler wrote:
> Yes, I had this exact same problem with a Voodoo3 3000 card that got
> VERY hot. In my dual boot system, the card would heat up and windows
> would freeze completely. Under Linux, the exact same behaviour would
> also occur. X would lock and, just like your system, a hard reboot was
> required. When lockup occurred, I was foolish enough to touch the
> heatsink on the video card and gave myself a nice blister. My Solution:
> I bought a really nice fan that is mounted on a add-on card style mount.
> (Install the fan in the expansion slot right above or below the video
> card's GPU). Since then....no probs!
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:46, Laurent Blume wrote:
> > Mukhben Singh wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I am running Mandrake 9.0 distro and the X server 4.2.1 which came with
> > > it. The problem is that, after using X for some time, my system locks up
> > > completely. I mean no key combination works. No not even the Magic Sysrq.
> > > The only option is a hard reset.
> > > The symptoms:
> > > 1. Mouse pointer disappears.
> > > 2. No common action ( that means, I can't recreate it
> > > intentionally. )
> > > 3. Occurs irrespective of GUI. KDE, Gnome all the same.
> > > 4. Complete system freeze.
> > > 5. May occur within minutes after the boot or after hours.
> >
> > IT sounds more like a hardware problem than a software one. I've seen
> > those exact symptoms many times with overheating CPUs, and sometimes
> > with other defective parts.
> > You could check if the CPU fan is working correctly and is well adjusted
> > to the CPU. If your mainboard allows it, check its temperature (though
> > it's not always very accurate).
> >
> > Other tests would be trying to disable as many options as possible in
> > the BIOS.
> > Since you have everything on the MB, it doesn't seem likely there would
> > be an hardware conflict.
> >
> >
> > > [snip]
> >
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