Is the box open? If so monitor the cpu fan! Most lockups like this is 
due to faulty fans. If the system boots, not likely RAM, the BIOS will 
tell tyhe OS to adjust.
Just my $.02

Mike

Richard Wilson wrote:

>Jeremy and all,
>
>The workstation is a Linux only box -- my laptop is soon to be dual
>booting.  If my problem re-occurs I'll be trying to boot it off a Ubuntu
>Live CD I have and see if it behaves...  If it behaves, I'll probably do
>a clean reinstall of Fedora... should probably move to FC4 anyway.
>
>Thanks, uptime is now 7:18 and I've been hitting it pretty heavily.
>
>Rich
>-----------
>On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 21:05 -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Richard Wilson wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>This is the first time EVER that I've had my XP laptop stay up better
>>>than any of my Linux workstations.
>>>      
>>>
>>Does XP reliably run on that same hardware since you have had the hardware 
>>problems?
>>
>>I have also had a few systems fail on me this last year. Random lock ups 
>>usually after a couple days, but then they started to lock up within 
>>minutes. I tried doing some memory tests but didn't find problems. Tried a 
>>few different operating systems. I also never found out why.
>>
>>  Jeremy C. Reed
>>
>>  	  	 	 technical support & remote administration
>> 	  	 	 http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
>>    
>>

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