RE: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-12 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ?? Derek, Doh! I should have thought of memtest but never crossed my mind, I a

Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??-new findings !!

2003-11-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 02:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To all that helped me , > > first of all thanks for your considerations. My new situation is : > > 1) I ran memtest-96 3.0 for 7.5 hours ( all night long) and it did not give > me any error. I think this means memory is OK. That s

Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??-new findings !!

2003-11-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 7:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To all that helped me , > > first of all thanks for your considerations. My new situation is : > > 1) I ran memtest-96 3.0 for 7.5 hours ( all night long) and it did not give > me any error. I think this means memory is OK. > > 2) If the

Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 1:31 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Hertas, > > I think this is an Asus problem as I have the same MB as you and am > having problems with Mandrake. I have not been able to find the cause > yet, but W2k is stable (unusually). I have a A7N8X Deluxe mobo and I have no problem

Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Dale Kosan wrote: snip... I have the same board and cpu combo and have had no freezes or lock ups. I am using an older gforce2 card and have only installed the nvidia driver for it.. I have not found the need to install the rest of the nvidia stuff. Maybe you have bad memory? I'll bet what

Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Thread Dale Kosan
snip... I have the same board and cpu combo and have had no freezes or lock ups. I am using an older gforce2 card and have only installed the nvidia driver for it.. I have not found the need to install the rest of the nvidia stuff. Maybe you have bad memory? Want to buy your Pack or Serv

Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 11:09 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Subject: Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux > really stable ?? > > Derek, > > Doh! I should have thought of memtest but never crossed my mind, I am > using Corsair value matched pairs so I ex

RE: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ?? Derek, Doh! I should have thought of memtest but never crossed my mind, I a

Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 9:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Friends , > > I have Asus A7n8x-deluxe , 2500 + athlon and Asus FX 5600 vga card. I > installed Mandrake 9.2 and I also installed latest original mainboard and > vga drivers from Nvidia's site. Everything ( even 3com lan adapter ) work

RE: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Thread Tony S. Sykes
one or two problems in Windows but those have gone away after the 4th reinstall. Tony. -Original Message- From: anton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable

Re: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Thread anton
guys, I have a similar problem and it is VERY annoying. I have a suspicion it has something to do with the temperature of the cpu - at least in my case. A friend put the thermo tape on and heatsink - he's a careless bastard. The problem seems to happen every time when encoding video - something

RE: [newbie] My system crashes on Mandrake 9.2 ??!! Is linux really stable ??

2003-11-11 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Hertas, I think this is an Asus problem as I have the same MB as you and am having problems with Mandrake. I have not been able to find the cause yet, but W2k is stable (unusually). Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 200