Vaughn Treude wrote:

>I've been trying to fix a problem I've been having on one of my systems.  
>Maybe one of you have encountered something similar.
>
>When I first got this Soyo Dragon motherboard last year, I installed Mandrake 
>9.1 on the system and encountered a weird hang problem.  At some point (not 
>immediately) when the screen saver was running, the keyboard lights would 
>start flashing and it would be completely locked.  (Is this the usual sign of 
>a kernel panic?)  This problem would happen fairly frequently.  Shortly 
>afterwardI had to back off to Mandrake 8 due to problems getting Kylix 3 
>running on the newer distro.   At that same time I'd just discovered (and 
>disabled) the ACPI option in the bios, so I thought I'd fixed it.  Recently I 
>set up 9.1 in a spare partition so I could run Eclipse.  In 9.1, the problem 
>was back.  It also happens in Red Hat 9 and Red Hat 7.3 - the common thread 
>appears to be kernels that are newer than 2.4.3-20.   But unfortunately I 
>can't find anything in the log about that, I just see normal stuff like cron 
>messages.  One thing that  makes me suspect power management was the 
>following, which I see occasionally in the log files on all the different 
>distro installs:
>
>Mar  6 04:06:41 vaughn kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3d.
>Mar  6 04:06:41 vaughn kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>Mar  6 04:06:41 vaughn kernel: Do you have a strange power saving mode 
>enabled?
>
>I suppose that may be totally coincidental, but the hang problem has never 
>happened while I've been actively using the machine.  (The other oddity about 
>this system is that sometimes when I reboot it, it hangs on the reboot, and I 
>must press the reset switch in order for it to come up.  That's probably not 
>related, but you never know.)
>
>Is there a way I could make the logs more verbose so I could get a handle on 
>this problem?  Another approach might be to run some sort of a cron job which 
>would keep the system from ever being inactive for too long.  That would 
>allow me to test my hibernation theory.
>
>Thanks,
>Vaughn Treude
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Please let  me know if you find anything. I've been having the same 
problem. Haven't had time to search it out though. Never a problem while 
I'm actively usin the box. Only happens when I'm using one of the last 
three kernels on my box. Thought it might be related to my screensaver 
so I turned it off but still have the problem. I'm running Fedora Core 1

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