RE: [newbie] PC locks up solid. FIXED MAYBE ????

Steve Kaufman Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:15:53 -0800

THANKS TONY for the following suggestion:

add noapic nolapic to your append line of your kernel. I have the same motherboard and have had major problems, I thought it was the sata drives I was using but it was adding acpi=off noapic nolapic that fixed it.

THANKS Everyone. This was making me crazy.

I was up for 24 hours. I had to come back to windows to get some work done and reply to this email as I have the windows side deleting the emails from the server.

The whole driver updates looked a little scary for now. May come back to you all when I get ready to do that. Which I will. One small step for LINUX at a time.

Steve

Linux user number 344404

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Date: 02/20/04 15:44:18

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Subject: RE: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

OK Here is what I have done... I'll see what happens...

Last night I rn memtest86 for 11 hours without a problem.

I then read a bunch of email from you great people that sent suggestions.

I changed these in LILO.conf but did not reboot.

I then ran the BurnK7 for 10 minutes no problem

then ran burnBX -L for 10 minutes no problem.

Then ran MPRIME for 1 hour no problem.

Then I ran all three at the same time for a couple of hours and searched the web for the nvidia drivers. The instructions to load their latest drivers looked a little complex for this newbie so I have not done anything with that. Although I did find what I think is an RPM of the driver. Have to go back and read more.

I then came back to windows so I could reply to these emails and I'm going back to reboot and see if the additions to lilo made the difference.

More updates later....

THANKS everyone.

Steve

Linux user number 344404

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Date: 02/20/04 07:15:03

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Subject: RE: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

Steve,

Tony.

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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:44 PM
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Subject: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

Below is my original post I had posted back to the list that it was fixed but it is not and I don't have any idea where to go. I would really like to use Linux but if I can't keep it up (alright no one say it is a personal problem) IT DOESN'T DO ME MUCH GOOD.

What I have done was to add the acpi=off to the append line it was acpi=ht then I rebooted again after doing /sbin/lilo/. The machine then stayed up for over 18hrs but I only had the desktop open with no application running. I am going to try that again and see if it stays up. It's kind of hard to just let it sit there and not do anything. It seems like it might not be power management because it has locked up while I was using it and not just after setting doing nothing but last night at was after I left the room to eat dinner.

I have also checked all logs from Configure you machine/logs in MCC and there is absolutly nothing that would indicate a problem.

I also posted a ps -A and someone verified that there were no ACPI processes running.

Don't know where else to look.

Steve

Linux user number 344404

-------Original Message-------

From: Steve Kaufman

Date: 02/17/04 15:46:20

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Subject: PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work

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 machine up for days

with no problems.

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 the pc with the power button. I have to turn off at the surge

protector.

I have tried to isolate this to an application and have been unable to. The

only time it does not seem to happen is when I have no applications open on

my desktop. As long as the cursor is resting on the desktop not in an

application then the pc does not seem to lock up.

The only application that I have installed other than the defaut ones that

come with the 9.2 install is Thunderbird but I have also tried not running

Thunderbird after a boot to see what would happen and it still locks up. The

only applications I have really been using are. MCC functions for updates

and trying to make sure my hardware is configured correctly. I read email

both with Thunderbird and Kmail. Web browsing with Konqour.

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 applications open or closed and I can not

find a pattern.

- I have installed all updates.

- I have looked in logs but don't see anything when it hangs. The logs I

look at are the ones which can be seen in MCC.

My hardware:

* System Summary *

********************

Motherboard - ASUS - A7N8X - Delux version 2.0

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ 2.0 GHz (2500+ overclocked I

have run in at 2500 and still happens.

I have had it at 2700 in windows forever and

no problems)

BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Phoenix-Award BIOS v6

00PG, 05/14/03

Bus Type: PCI, ISA, USB

Ports: 1 Parallel, 2 Serial

Memory: 512 MB (42% Utilized) GEIL 400MHZ PC3200

Floppy Disks: 1.44 MB

Hard Disks: 16.95 GB, 16.95 GB, 114.50 GB, 12.66 GB

Multimedia: Sound, CD-ROM

Video: 800 x 600 in 64K Colors, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ver.

6.14 128meg

LAN 3Com 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller

NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller

< Operating System >

Windows: 5.0 (Build 2195)

< IBM Enhanced (101- or 102-key) keyboard >

< MICROSOFT PS2 MOUSE >

< Drive C > WINDOWS drive MAXTOR

Total space in drive: 122,934,034,432 bytes (114.49 GB)

Used space: 14,998,540,288 bytes (13.97 GB)

Available space: 107,935,494,144 bytes (100.52 GB)

< Volume Information >

File System: NTFS

D = LITEON 52x32x52 CD-RW

E= LINUX drive WDC, 13GB I think. Windows has no idea what's on here.

< Drive F > Compaq SCSI - BB01821AC3

Total space in drive: 18,202,509,312 bytes (16.95 GB)

Used space: 11,992,743,936 bytes (11.17 GB)

Available space: 6,209,765,376 bytes (5.78 GB)

< Volume Information >

File System: NTFS

< Drive G > COMPAQ SCSI - BB018222CA

Total space in drive: 18,158,800,896 bytes (16.91 GB)

Used space: 6,830,092,288 bytes (6.36 GB)

Available space: 11,328,708,608 bytes (10.55 GB)

< Volume Information >

File System: FAT32

Drive H = CD-R 48x

Any help would be appreciated.

What info would be helpful from LINUX?

Steve

Linux user number 344404

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