One possibility worth trying would be to boot off the rescue disk and leave it in the command line. Don't login or type anything and see if it still crashes. If it does you could be dealing with a dodgy power supply, otherwise apart from linux config probs it may be worth checking your Ram out. If you've got 2 128Mb banks try running them individually to see if it's faulty Ram. (Also if you've got windows on the machine too try running running that to see if that does the same.) I've known overburdened or failing power supllies produce random crashes before. Especially when accessing devices such as CD drives or HD's. Have you added any new periperhals recently that are drawing power from the power supply. (USB potentially included in that) Antonio. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Isaac Curtis Sent: 14 September 2001 19:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Recent Freezing Issue I'm typing this very quickly because every time I've logged in to write this my computer has frozen before I could finish. I have 1600 backed up emails and haven't been able to write anything else to this list for help on other issues. The problem is that when logged in to my 7.2 box, the computer freezes after a varying amount of time. I haven't been able to isolate it because it happens so often I almost don't use the computer anymore. I believe it has all been happening either when it is idle or at most when the mouse is in use, I don't remember it occurring when the keyboard was typing. I always first notice it because the mouse won't respond, then I realize the keyboard won't either, and nothing will work except for turning off the power on the box. This has never happened in the first two months of using Linux but it has happened with paralyzing frequency for the last week or so. If it is relevant, I'm not dipping into swap at all, I've got 256MB RAM and not even half is usually used for active processes. I've got kpppstatistics, processmanager, 2 instances of Mozilla (1 browser 1 mail), everybuddy and an eterm open. What's going on? - Isaac PS: Peace, respect, and empathy to all those affected by this tragedy, both in America and abroad. My heart goes out to all of you and to those yet to be affected by whatever response my government ends up taking. I'm so sorry, this all seems so unreal...
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