Hi All,
Just thought I'd wait long enough before claiming it was solved again :)
For reference, the original email is below. Essentially I had a problem
where my system would freeze up every day or two (if not multiple times
during the day). Suspects were temperature, PSU, RAM, motherboard, etc
Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> > Have you done the basic cable/chip wiggle test? (remove+replace),3, *
> > every cable and chip[1].
>
> Sorry Terry, I don't follow this "(remove+replace),3,*" process?
You take cable, remove from pins, replace cable on pins, and repeat this
process three times. Do this
On 7/08/2003 9:40 PM +1000, Patrick Lesslie wrote:
I have a very similar system, (Athlon 1800+, Matrox G550 dualhead)
and apparently the same problem. I have heard that Athlons like this
suffer from overheating, so I assumed it was that.
It freezes sometimes when there is a lot of system activity
> This one time, at band camp, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> > Any other suggestions? It has one other defect where you sometimes have
> > to press the reset button a number of times before you actually get
> > video output which leads me to believe maybe it is the motherboard.
>
> It could be that a
On Monday 11 August 2003 16:13, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > This one time, at band camp, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> > > Any other suggestions? It has one other defect where you sometimes have
> > > to press the reset button a number of times before you actually get
> > > video output which leads me to
Hi All,
Thanks very much to everyone who had their input on my problem. The
problem was indeed the power supply. It's been running for 1 day and 6
hours so far without a crash so I'm pretty certain (touch wood) that it's
fixed.
I learnt a few things from this problem:
1. It's not good to be
On 8/08/2003 9:59 AM +1000, John Clarke wrote:
Power supply. I had a system which would randomly fall over with no
apparent cause. I replaced the RAM, video and network cards,
motherboard and CPU but nothing changed. Then one day, it wouldn't
power up so I replaced the power supply and it's run
On 7/08/2003 10:29 AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
Gonzalo Servat wrote:
FWIW, the system is running Gentoo kernel 2.4.19,
{:-) that is obviously your problem. One of your
libaries needs a recompile
:-)
Did you say new CPU & mobo?
But you didn't list your mobo.
It's a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1
HW f
Um but back to the orignal problem :)
I was just reading some thing and i wonder if it might be a similar
problem. Would it be ok if you put a sync in roots cron to run every
hour.
if itr fixes it i have a link for you!
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> On 7/08/2003 7:21 PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
>
>> Hi Gonzalo,
>> Try removing everything that is *not* absolutely needed in the
>> computer. Ie all the cards that are not needed. Could be one of those
>> causing the problem. Remove *one* of the memory chips if possible and
>> leave the other i
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> On 7/08/2003 9:40 PM +1000, Patrick Lesslie wrote:
>
> > I have a very similar system, (Athlon 1800+, Matrox G550 dualhead)
> > and apparently the same problem. I have heard that Athlons like this
> > suffer from overheating, so I assumed it was that.
On 7/08/2003 10:44 AM +1000, John McQuillen wrote:
It's a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1
Your motherboard uses the NForce2 chipset, support for which, I believe,
is best gained from the NVIDIA binary drivers available here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html
I hope this helps,
Thanks John. The drivers
It's worth noting that not all power supplies supply the wattage they are
rated for. There has been a fair amount of debate about this in
hardware/overclocking circles lately. The consensus is that basically only
the Antec TruePower series is really good at supplying the right wattage,
cleanly
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:35:15AM +1000, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> At the moment it's sitting on -29C (so it says anyway)
I don't believe that. I'd expect it to be more like +35C to +45C.
Mine (2GHz P4) is normally +40C, rising two or three degrees when under
load.
Cheers,
John
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> I'm experiencing complete (and random) system freezes every day or
> two. I've not found a pattern yet, it happens at random. System specs as
> follows:
>
> Athlon 1800+ CPU
> 256MB DDR
> Matrox G400 Dualhead
> 2 x HDD
> 2 x SCSI CDROM
>
> Lower temp limit is +20C and max is +60C so you could be right. At the
> moment it's sitting on -29C (so it says anyway).. but it's not freezing,
> yet.. I had another freeze this morning.. ggr!
What cooling system do you have? It's even colder than
ambient temperature.
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-=> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:55:59AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
-=> > Think "sick building syndrome". Basically, new
-=> office/office works and
-=> > factories produce lots of "fumes" that can deposit on
-=> nice new shiny
-=> > pins and provide an insulating layer of gunk that causes
-=>
The first word that comes to mind is "rage".
I left my machine alone for a while and when I came back I tried to move
the mouse. The pointer would not move. I look at the clock, the clock did
not increase count. I look down at the case, the hard disk activity light
is permanently on. Oh no, the
This one time, at band camp, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
>Any other suggestions? It has one other defect where you sometimes have to
>press the reset button a number of times before you actually get video
>output which leads me to believe maybe it is the motherboard.
It could be that a 400W psu still
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:59, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> >Any other suggestions? It has one other defect where you sometimes have to
> >press the reset button a number of times before you actually get video
> >output which leads me to believe maybe it
It may be another wild goose chase - as I am sorry to say
that I haven't followed your thread - if you disable say
your primary IDE controller and swap disks over to the secondary
and then observe the systems behaviour. I am thinking of
IDE controller problems.
Just a thought.
Regards,
Raj
::>
can you change you AGP speed, try clocking back to 2x or 4X in the BIOS
and see if that helps...
Dave.
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Kevin Saenz wrote:
> Gonzalo,
>
> I used to have that problem. My computer would freeze in Windows
> when ever playing a 3d game. I found it would freeze spasmodically
> us
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:38, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> On 7/08/2003 10:29 AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
>
> > Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> > Did you say new CPU & mobo?
> > But you didn't list your mobo.
>
> It's a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1
>
Your motherboard uses the NForce2 chipset, support for which, I
-=>400W and a 320W... and you know where I can stick the 320W?
Not a wise thing to ask on this list, my friend !!!...:-)
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On 7/08/2003 7:21 PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
Hi Gonzalo,
Try removing everything that is *not* absolutely needed in the computer.
Ie all the cards that are not needed. Could be one of those causing the
problem. Remove *one* of the memory chips if possible and leave the other
in. then change it o
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:55:59AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> Think "sick building syndrome". Basically, new office/office works and
> factories produce lots of "fumes" that can deposit on nice new shiny
> pins and provide an insulating layer of gunk that causes intermittent
> problem.
This rem
On 7 Aug 2003, Kevin Saenz wrote:
> Gonzalo,
>
> I used to have that problem. My computer would freeze in Windows
> when ever playing a 3d game. I found it would freeze spasmodically
> using Linux. The problem was with my mother board and a buggy ACPI
> component. Now I have ACPI modules installe
On 8/08/2003 10:26 AM +1000, David wrote:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
On 7/08/2003 9:40 PM +1000, Patrick Lesslie wrote:
> I have a very similar system, (Athlon 1800+, Matrox G550 dualhead)
> and apparently the same problem. I have heard that Athlons like this
> suffer from over
Gonzalo,
I used to have that problem. My computer would freeze in Windows
when ever playing a 3d game. I found it would freeze spasmodically
using Linux. The problem was with my mother board and a buggy ACPI
component. Now I have ACPI modules installed and I have not
experienced a freeze.
Hope th
> I've tried removing the G400 too just incase it was the video card
> overheating (I replaced it with a PCI S3) but it froze too (rather quickly
> I might add). I also ran lm-sensors overnight and left it as "sticky" on my
> desktop and on the upper layer, so that if it freezes I'll see what
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:59:37AM +1000, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied and keep the suggestions coming :)
Power supply. I had a system which would randomly fall over with no
apparent cause. I replaced the RAM, video and network cards,
motherboard and CPU but nothing changed
On 7/08/2003 11:14 AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have you run a complete memory test over the system. Quite often these
sort of things are a dud memory chip.
Yeah, I ran memtest for 8 hours overnight with no problems.
Regards,
Gonzalo
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Hi Gonzalo,
Try removing everything that is *not* absolutely needed in the computer.
Ie all the cards that are not needed. Could be one of those causing the
problem. Remove *one* of the memory chips if possible and leave the
other in. then change it over. some systems will allow this. remove
CD
Gonzalo Servat wrote:
> FWIW, the system is running Gentoo kernel 2.4.19,
{:-) that is obviously your problem. One of your
libaries needs a recompile
Did you say new CPU & mobo?
But you didn't list your mobo.
I have a MSI mobo that does this under linux, but noth that other OS.
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