So seeing as how the first update went so well I decided to update the rest of the outdated items listed by the RH-Linux automatic update feature. At about 25% or 30% through the download process my screen quickly faded to black. At first I thought my monitor died. After switching another one for it I realized this was not the case. Then I thought maybe the video card died. That was not the case either. So I rebooted the machine and made sure everything worked fine w/Linux. It seemed stable. So I tried to download the updates again.
Luckily it started were it was when the machine went into limbo. About the same amount of time passed and the screen turned black again. I went through this for a total of three times before all of the updates were downloaded and finally installed. Now any time I start up Linux with the new kernel the machine locks up. This happens in either KDE or gnome.
Has anyone experienced this? Do I maybe need to do some Kernel tuning and if so what would you recommend. I don't know how to do this but like I said before I have been using UNIX for 8 years now and am not too affraid to poke around.
I am running RH-Linux 7.3 on an AMD AthlonXP processor running at 1.67 ghz. I have 512 MB of ram and a 40 gig hard drive. Also, I do have the hard drive partitioned off so that I can also run Windows XP (Sorry! It's just a necessary evil). I used Partition Magic 7.0 to do the partitioning. Up until this update I had no problems with Linux. If I use the previous version of the Kernel things seem to be like before which is problem free.
Any help would br greatly appreciated because the system locks up after 10-15 miinutes consistently.
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