On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:10:34 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > I've been having some problems with my desktop machine during and > after booting into Planet CCRMA RH9. At first I started getting some > kernel panics booting into the system, then I started having trouble > during operation of the system. X would suddenly freeze shortly after I > started it, usually after the first mouse move. > > Okay, so I don't panic because I have another drive in the same box > running FC3, so I figure I'll just boot into that system instead and > transfer files before everything heads south. At first everything seemed > fine on that drive, but soon after I started using it FC3 started showing > the same symptoms with sudden reboots and total freezes of the machine. > > I've been able to transfer a lot of stuff to my laptop via the local > network, but mounting the RH9 drive is very dangerous, things can freeze > at any moment. Alas, there's still stuff on that drive that I'd like to > retrieve. > > So there's something wrong with the box. Can anyone point me in the > right direction to begin troubleshooting this machine ? Could it be RAM ? > The graphics card ? Or what ?? And how can I test things on the hardware > side, i.e., what utilities are indicated ? > > Any and all suggestions vastly appreciated. > > Best, > > dp I think there could be many causes for this. You could check your memory by booting into memtest86+ Disk diagnostics.. try smartctl -t long /dev/hda (or whatever the disk is). Lastly, if you are using an Asus a7n8x or similar nforce-2 based motherboard, it could be the same problem that I had. See: http://atlas.et.tudelft.nl/verwei90/nforce2/index.html Though I think this problem has been fixed in recent kernels. If it is happening regardless of box when you connect to that disk, then I think it is most likely that the disk is broken. James
