Re: [scottish] Random lockups! Hardware Diagnostics?

2005-10-16 Thread Harry F Doherty 
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:55:23PM +0100, B C Kupris wrote:
 Harry F Doherty wrote:
 
 Hi
 
 I've been having random lockups on my machine - no response to keyboard
 or mouse.
 My machine started locking up seemingly randomly yestarday evening, I 
 opened her up and checked the CPU heatsink, completely blocked with 
 dust. The GPU heatsink was just as bad and I think it was probably the 
 graphics card which was crashing the system crashed only after X 
 started. Gave them a good clean and problem solved. I wonder how many 
 people have broken pcs which are just in need of some tlc.
 
 ck

Spot on.
There was a thick carpet of stoor between my cpu fan and the heat sink.
Amazing that the thing worked at all.
Hopefully that's it resolved.

thanks to all who replied.

H.

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[scottish] Random lockups! Hardware Diagnostics?

2005-10-10 Thread Harry F Doherty 


Hi

I've been having random lockups on my machine - no response to keyboard
or mouse. This has happen both mid X session and when trying to log on
a tty.

I assume this is a hardware problem?
All my hardware is pretty suspect as I found it in bins.
I think I've ruled out memory (memtest) and power supply (multimeter).
ide-smart on both my hard drives gives passed on all lines.
I'm not sure what to make of my smartctl -i output (listings below).
So I'm not completely satisfied I've ruled out a hard drive/ide
problem.

So where do I go from here?
I need to check my logs, but where and what?
I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.2.20.
Do I need a new mobo?

Thanks for your patience and proleptic gratitude for any assistance.
I'd better go and back up my dog faced hermans mp3s before this thing
blows up.

cheers
Harry.

Anyway, here is alot of output from commands I hope may be relevant:

///

*dmesg

Linux version 2.2.20 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sat Apr 20 
11:45:28 EST 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 @  (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0400 @ 0009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0fef @ 0010 (usable)
Detected 801832 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1599.07 BogoMIPS
Memory: 256800k/262080k available (1756k kernel code, 412k reserved, 2960k 
data, 152k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K  L1 D Cache: 64K
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K
CPU: AMD Duron(tm) processor stepping 01
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb230
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Starting kswapd v 1.5 
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST32122A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: ST313640A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: ST32122A, 2014MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63
hdd: ST313640A, 12969MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=26351/16/63
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi: fdomain Detection failed (no card)
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
IBM MCA SCSI: Version 3.2
IBM MCA SCSI: No Microchannel-bus present -- Aborting.
  This machine does not have any IBM MCA-bus
  or the MCA-Kernel-support is not enabled!
megaraid: v1.11 (Aug 23, 2000)
aec671x_detect: 
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.008.
3w-: tw_findcards(): No cards found.
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2
 hdd: [PTBL] [1653/255/63] hdd1 hdd2
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
Adding Swap: 207640k swap-space (priority -1)
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo KT133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd000
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation.
parport_probe: failed
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Via 686a audio driver 1.1.8-2.2
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, vendor id1: 0x4943, id2: 0x4511 (Unknown)
via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xDC00, IRQ 10
NET4: G4KLX/GW4PTS AX.25 for Linux. Version 0.37 for Linux NET4.0
Z8530 SCC driver version 3.0.dl1bke (experimental) by DL1BKE / patch F6FBB
Copyright 1993,2000 Joerg Reuter DL1BKE ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others 
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang

Re: [scottish] Random lockups! Hardware Diagnostics?

2005-10-10 Thread B C Kupris 

Harry F Doherty wrote:


Hi

I've been having random lockups on my machine - no response to keyboard
or mouse. This has happen both mid X session and when trying to log on
a tty.

I assume this is a hardware problem?
All my hardware is pretty suspect as I found it in bins.
I think I've ruled out memory (memtest) and power supply (multimeter).
ide-smart on both my hard drives gives passed on all lines.
I'm not sure what to make of my smartctl -i output (listings below).
So I'm not completely satisfied I've ruled out a hard drive/ide
problem.

So where do I go from here?
I need to check my logs, but where and what?
I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.2.20.
Do I need a new mobo?

Thanks for your patience and proleptic gratitude for any assistance.
I'd better go and back up my dog faced hermans mp3s before this thing
blows up.

cheers
Harry.
 



My machine started locking up seemingly randomly yestarday evening, I 
opened her up and checked the CPU heatsink, completely blocked with 
dust. The GPU heatsink was just as bad and I think it was probably the 
graphics card which was crashing the system crashed only after X 
started. Gave them a good clean and problem solved. I wonder how many 
people have broken pcs which are just in need of some tlc.


ck

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Re: [scottish] Random lockups! Hardware Diagnostics?

2005-10-10 Thread Ben Thorp 




It would be worth checking your cooling - I had similar problems recently
due to a faulty cpufan.

Ben

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/10/2005 13:53:23:

 Harry F Doherty wrote:
 
  Hi
 
  I've been having random lockups on my machine - no response to keyboard
  or mouse. This has happen both mid X session and when trying to log on
  a tty.
 
  I assume this is a hardware problem?
  All my hardware is pretty suspect as I found it in bins.
  I think I've ruled out memory (memtest) and power supply (multimeter).
  ide-smart on both my hard drives gives passed on all lines.
  I'm not sure what to make of my smartctl -i output (listings below).
  So I'm not completely satisfied I've ruled out a hard drive/ide
  problem.
 
  So where do I go from here?
  I need to check my logs, but where and what?
  I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.2.20.

 I'll put money on that being a possible issue; try a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.
  You're running 2.2 on testing?  Is it a handrolled kernel?

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Re: [scottish] Random lockups! Hardware Diagnostics?

2005-10-10 Thread Harry F Doherty 

  I need to check my logs, but where and what?
  I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.2.20.
 
 I'll put money on that being a possible issue; try a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.
  You're running 2.2 on testing?  Is it a handrolled kernel?

Uh, no I started with stable and then upgraded the packages.
I was going to defect to Ubuntu, but wanted to rule out HW problems
first.

Also thanks to B C and Ben for the dust and fan tips - cheers.

thanks
H


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