Hi, Dave Phillips a ?crit : > Greetings: > > It has not been a good week. > > As I mentioned yesterday I swapped my hardware into an identical box as > my original machine. Which hardware did you swap ? HD, memory, alim ? > Today I powered up the box, logged on to the net, downloaded the latest > Csound CVS and started compiling. After a few minutes everything froze > again, the machine was locked tight as a drum. Did you look at your system log ? I had to pull the plug to > restart, but when grub came up my keyboard was frozen. I pulled the plug > again and got my keyboard back after restarting. You should look your temperature when it freeze and if possible when running. > > Now I'm running memtest again. I realized yesterday that I'd run it on > only one RAM stick so I thought I'd better check again. However, at this > point I'm starting to suspect a bad drive. You can eliminate this possibilities using a live-cd distrib like Knoppix which runs in memory. But *two* bad drives in the > system ?? As I mentioned in an earlier message, the machine failure > occurred regardless of which drive I was using (RH9 on /dev/hdb, FC3 on > /dev/hda). It could be a problem with dma ? what about hdparm ? > > So I'm bummed again. Looks like it's time to bite the bullet and buy a > whole new system. :( > All your system should not be bad. Jody