Re: [newbie] System Lock Up

2003-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
locks up. No way out, that I could find except to hit the reset switch. I've had this happen before recently when I was converting some .mp3s to .wav's. Any idea what could be causing this? That's a kernel panic. I saw it discussed here a few weeks ago - some where your kernel panicked and

Re: [newbie] System Lock Up

2003-03-23 Thread Chris
On Sunday 23 March 2003 09:30 pm, David E. Fox decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: locks up. No way out, that I could find except to hit the reset switch. I've had this happen before recently when I was converting some .mp3s to .wav's. Any idea what could be causing this?

Re: [newbie] System Lock Up

2003-03-23 Thread David E. Fox
Haven't run either. Which memtest should I install, memtester-2.93.1-3mdk or memtest86-3.0-2mdk. I'm wondering though if Xscreensaver didn't have I'd go with the memtest86 one. I haven't played with the other one and didn't know it existed. It's a first step if there may be something in

[newbie] System Lock Up

2003-03-22 Thread Chris
I'm suddenly starting to experience some strange behavior with 9.0. For instance a little bit ago I was copying some files from my linux partition to a drive I have windows on just to make some room on the /usr partition. Suddenly the caps lock and scroll lock leds began blinking and the