my crashing box

George Toft george@georgetoft.com
Sat, 03 Feb 2001 21:40:19 -0700


I had a similar problem.  Can you telnet into the box?  This proves
the OS is good.  Turned out it was my video card.  I replaced the 
card and everything was fine.

Linux will find hardware faults in a system.

George


Lucas Vogel wrote:
> 
> I am having a really hard time troubleshooting why my box will randomly
> freeze. I am running a SuSE 6.4 box w/ 192 MB RAM, a Diamond Speedstar A55
> 8MB AGP video card, a Voodoo2 card, an Ensoniq ES1371 sound card(?), a
> D-Link(tulip) NIC, and I can't remember the name of the motherboard with an
> AMD K-3 333 chip. On occasion, for reasons I can't figure out, my system
> will all of a sudden completely lock up. The user input devices will not
> respond at all, and I have to do a hard reboot. It seems to be doing this
> with increased frequency lately; I used to think it was a software
> problem(something to do with the drivers for my sound card) but I'm now
> starting to suspect maybe it really is a hardware problem. Any guesses
> and/or recommendations would be greatly appreciated in figuring out what's
> causing this to crash.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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