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 that helps. BTW, I have not tried other cards I have a Nvidia GeForce 4. > Hi All, > > 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 > 1 x FDD > > First I thought it was maybe overheating so I installed lm-sensors. It > didn't seem to be overheating, so I left it running for a while and the > levels continued to look OK. It was then suggested to me that maybe my PSU > was either not powerful enough or dodgy. It was only a 200W so I went out > and bought a 320W PSU. It looked promising as it didn't crash for *gasp* 4 > days! but it froze on me twice last night. Since then, I've been running > memtest. 8 hours & 46 passes later with no errors, I'm thinking it's not > the RAM (the CPU, mobo and RAM are all brand new). My system was fine > before I upgraded to a new mobo/CPU. > > FWIW, the system is running Gentoo kernel 2.4.19, and also when I say > system freeze I mean the system just locks up. Can't press CTRL-ALT-F1, > can't ping it, etc. > > As you can imagine it's really annoying so I was hoping someone could shed > some light on this. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best regards, > Gonzalo -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb I.T consultants Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
