System freeze ?

[David Curry]

Ted wrote:

> David Curry wrote:
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>> Ted wrote:
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>>> Ted wrote:
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>>>> I am using a gigabyte mobo, athlon xp2600 processor and a nvidea 
>>>> graphics card...I have 2 hdds with Libranet on one and fedora
>>>> on the other...I have tried several distros on this box and all except
>>>> Libranet freeze at some time...When the ststem freezes I can move
>>>> the mouse pointer but the k/board is totally locked and the kde clock
>>>> does not count down and I have to resort to the reset button.
>>>> Knotix,Slackware,Ubuntu and SuSE seem to crash within a couple of
>>>> hours but Fedora will sometimes last for a day or so....I can 
>>>> replicate
>>>> the crash by deleting mail in my inbox too quickly or calling up apps
>>>> from the task bar quickly will sometimes cause it to crash..
>>>> Memtest seems to rum forever ok and have tried the Mersenne prime test
>>>> and that is ok...I have also opened the case and forced fan cooling 
>>>> into it but no difference...Any tips welcome...
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>>> Forgot to mention..... I get no error messages at all
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>> Ted, could you post your kernel version?  Are you using a desktop?  
>> Gnome, Kde, Xfce?
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> Thanks for the mail..This is the present kernel...
>  2.6.10-1.766_FC3
>  I have tried other kernels in other distros but all fail
> apart from Libranet...They fail no matter which desktop I use
> although as I said memtest will run all night as will seti from
> a normal terminal..I have swapped the vid card over with my other box
> which I know is ok but did not make any difference neither did moving
> over the memory chips...I have also tried recompiling the kernel
> as near as I can to the Libranet kernel but that failed too..
> Another odd thing is I get the same results from a live distro..
> Tried Mepis live and Ubuntu live but both freeze if I clear mail
> messages too fast...
>
We have some common ground, Ted.  I have a Gigabyte mobo, AMD Athlon 
processor, memtest runs fine for long periods and I experience system 
freezes from time to time (on some FC2 kernels, but not all).  Though, 
when my system freezes, even the keyboard is useless.

Do you have any sound issues?  My system has some sound, but all sound 
functions are not working.  And some sound functions starting working 
much better after I left-clicked on the Gnome panel/task bar sound 
volume icon.

What kind of hdds are in your system?  Is your fedora system on a master 
or slave disk?  My FC2 system resides by itself on a Western Digital 
80GB IDE drive.