Linux is designed to use your computer to the fullest extent possible.  I 
found this out by having a problem compiling the kernel, I kept getting 
this strange code *ap++=0x55.  This of course means NOTHING to me, but a 
quick search on google indicated this was a memory problem.  Sure enough I 
changed out the memory with some quality crucial memory, and viola it 
worked great.  The real point was I never saw any error running the same 
system for a little over a year with Windows loaded on it !!

At 10:19 AM 2/5/01 -0800, Lucas Vogel wrote:
>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
> >
> > ===========================
> > Lucas Vogel
> > Exponent, Inc.
> > lvogel@exponent.com
> > 623-587-6739    work
> > 623-587-4191    cell
> > ===========================
> > http://www.exponent.com
> >
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