I was unable to telnet into box; as a matter of fact that was the first
thing I tried doing. I do believe it turned out to be the cpu locking up
from overheating; upon opening the box I found a lot of dust clogged in the
cpu/fan area, so I gave the system a thorough cleaning and she's running
like a champ now. 

I was wondering, however, if you could go into a little more detail about
your comment on how linux will find hardware faults in a system. What
exactly does Linux do? does it do anything in particular?

Lucas

-----Original Message-----
From: George Toft [mailto:george@georgetoft.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 9:40 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: my crashing box


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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