[scottish] Random lockups! Hardware Diagnostics?

[Ben Thorp]

It would be worth checking your cooling - I had similar problems recently
due to a faulty cpufan.

Ben

scottish-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote on 10/10/2005 13:53:23:

> Harry F Doherty wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I've been having random lockups on my machine - no response to keyboard
> > or mouse. This has happen both mid X session and when trying to log on
> > a tty.
> >
> > I assume this is a hardware problem?
> > All my hardware is pretty suspect as I found it in bins.
> > I think I've ruled out memory (memtest) and power supply (multimeter).
> > ide-smart on both my hard drives gives "passed" on all lines.
> > I'm not sure what to make of my smartctl -i output (listings below).
> > So I'm not completely satisfied I've ruled out a hard drive/ide
> > problem.
> >
> > So where do I go from here?
> > I need to check my logs, but where and what?
> > I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.2.20.
>
> I'll put money on that being a possible issue; try a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.
>  You're running 2.2 on testing?  Is it a handrolled kernel?
>
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