[wplug] System locking up

[William Powell]

I know that my IDE controllers on this Mobo are flaky, but I have been 
running SCSI drives on a separate controller and that has improved 
things substantially. 

Is there any good way to test RAM in the system? 

Bill

David Ostroske wrote:

>I've had two systems lock up on me, and in one case, it was due to a faulty hard drive. I ended up getting a new hard drive and moving my old files to the new drive. (The old drive wasn't good enough to boot up from, but it was still good enough to read data files from.)
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>So, I'd say, check your hardware.
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>--- David Ostroske
>    eksortso at linuxmail.org
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Ben Beige <gunnar at zbzoom.net>
>Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:35:20 -0400 
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Re: [wplug] System locking up
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>>I had a similar problem in redhat (7.x+) while running XMMS.... Though I 
>>think it was corrupt MP3s.....
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>>Ben
>>At 08:44 AM 5/28/2003 -0400, you wrote:
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>>>I have a system running (Mandrake Linux 8.2 2.96-0.76mdk) (Linux version 
>>>2.4.18-6mdksmp)  that locks up on a semi regular basis.
>>>It typically happens while I am away from the machine.  When I come back 
>>>to after a number of hours I find the system will not respond to keyboard 
>>>or mouse movements. The system is typically on 24/7 but will go several 
>>>days before the problem occurs.
>>>
>>>I suspect APM or Xscreensaver problems, but haven't figured out where to 
>>>start looking.
>>>The machine is a dual 1.0 ghz P3 system.  So APM should be disabled when 
>>>running the SMP kernel.
>>>Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>Bill
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