machine is freezing all the time, cannot do anything

[max]

Alastair Neil wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:33 PM, max <maximilianbianco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> As I send this message, I run the risk of it not
>>> getting to where it should.  The machine is constantly
>>> freezing.  I cannot do anything with it anymore :(
>>>
>>> What should I do to troubleshoot it?
>>>
>>> Here's smoltProfile:
>>>
>>> To share your profile:
>>>
>> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_d987b6b2-71ec-4cfd-82c8-e822f9a5ec5a
>>> (public)
>>>
>>> Suggestions/Advice/Comments/Welcome :)
>>>
>>> I tried to install the update, but the machine crashed
>>> and did not accept them :(
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Antonio
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>>  What kind of computer do you have? What kind of cpu? Which kernel are you
>> running? Your not giving anything to go on.......
>>
>>  Max
> 
> Actually he gave his smolt profile that has a considerable amount of
> information.  I would first eliminate bad memory as the culprit.  IIRC
> you can boot off of the install media and run memtest.
> 
he sure did give the smolt profile , I didn't bother to paste it into a 
browser, my fault ....sometimes i need to drop it down a gear.
Apologies!

Max