Go hit the sauce, and hold on . . . 

I had a similar problem and posted a query for help on another list. 
One arrogant SOB said I had a heat problem - he had seen it before, yada
yada yada.  At the suggestion of someone else, I lowered the temp in my
apartment from 80 to 70 for two weeks.  Guess what?  No lockups.  I
installed another case fan, put a fan on my el-cheapo video card,
installed a super-duper CPU cooler and raised the apartment temp to a
humane level.  No lockups.  I had a cooling problem.  I ate crow.

Check it out.  Back off the clock speed on cpu (and bus!) 5%-10% and see
what happens.  Put a fan on your video card.

George


Victor Odhner wrote:
> 
> Hi, folks.  I need some diagnostic tips here.
> 
> Tonight I have found that I can no longer work
> under RH 7.3 on my dual-boot system.  It keeps
> locking up, very early into each session,
> whether working in X or at the console prompt.
> Win98SE is running fine.
> 
> I think I'm always hitting the disk when it
> happens.  The mouse and keyboard stop
> responding to all input, and the reset
> button is the only way out.
> 
> X is running in every case, but I can hang it
> without even logging onto X, instead working
> in a console window.  In that case, my lockups
> generally happen when I CD to a different
> volume, or once when I tried to mount one.
> In many cases this is a VFAT or FAT-32 volume,
> because I have all my Win98 volumes mounted.
> 
> I'm running three IDE drives.  Because I had
> to shut it off rudely, I ran the "File System
> Integrity Check" which went through all my
> mounted volumes.  The Linux volumes are Ext3.
> I also went over to Windows and ran Scandisk
> on all three physical drives, though not on
> all partitions.  No sign of disk trouble.
> 
> I'm guessing some sort of kernel corruption.
> 
> I have very, very little time to tinker
> with the system, so this is killing me.
> 
> Ideas on how I can diagnose this?
> 
> I'm thinking that installing RH 8.0 might
> possibly overcome the problem.  That's a
> very Redmondian Voodoo approach, but I
> have no ideas at this point.
> 
> Vic
> 
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