If the computer is freezing to the point where it isn't even pinging that's a kernel bug. I'm guessing the hard disk is returning some error which is causing the kernel to freak out for whatever reason. Looking to see if there are any useful messages on the console would be a good thing to do, if you have access to the console. If you are running X, since you can reproduce it, try switching out of X to the VT console, and login is as root to the console. Then run the manual fsck by hand, like this: "e2fsck -f -C 0 /dev/XXX" (where you need to replace XXX with the appropriate devince name). The -C 0 will cause e2fsck to print out a progress bar, with a spinner, which makes it easier for you to see when the system has hung. At that point, what you need to note is (a) did any messages appear on the console? If so, taking a picture of the console messages via digital camera (or copying down all of the messages and numbers *carefully*) would be a really good thing. (b) Can you ping the system over the network? (c) Does console echo work? If so, you might try alt-sysrq-p and alt-sysrq-l and see what you get.
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