Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work - SOLVED

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Kaufman
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 04:48 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2004 21:13, Steve Kaufman wrote: I will try that. Thx Anne. Are you an english lady? How's things across the pond? I am - and it's rather cold and wet, but nothing like as cold as NY

Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work - SOLVED

2004-02-18 Thread Travis Crook
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 06:06, Steve Kaufman wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2004 04:48 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2004 21:13, Steve Kaufman wrote: I will try that. Thx Anne. Are you an english lady? How's things across the pond? I am - and it's

[newbie] PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work

2004-02-17 Thread Steve Kaufman
Help please, This is going to be a real challange. I have installed MD9,2 a couple of weeks ago. Some of the people on this list have been very wonderfull in helping me to overcome some very simple but perplexing problems for a newbie This problem does not happen in windows. I can leave my

Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work

2004-02-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 20:46, Steve Kaufman wrote: Here's todays problem and it is a big one that if I can't fix I may have to stop using LInux. Intermittently (almost every day) if I leave my pc sit inactive for some period of time it will just lockup to where I can not even power off

Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work

2004-02-17 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 04:48 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2004 03:46 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: What I have done to attempt to isolate the problem. - I have disabled all power management in the bios and in MD (from MCC) - I have tried leaving various

Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work

2004-02-17 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 04:48 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: You might want to take a look at syslog to see what it says just prior to your hard booting the system after it locks. Might be some clue there. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from