my crashing box

[Alan Dayley]

Double check the fan on the CPU.  If it has died or fallen off, the CPU
will get to hot and cause the problem you are talking about.  Since the
problem has gotten gradually worse, the fan is probably dying and getting
worse with time.  Run it for a while with the cover off and watch/listen
for the fan.

Alan

At 04:14 PM 2/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
>A box running too hot maybe?
>
>> 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.
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