i had the same Abit board and i had problems with it locking up also. i don't think the lock ups were from buggy software as much as it was the board... if i set the chip speed down to 900mhz from the chips rated speed of 1.3 the board was rock solid... i was not overclocking anything, the board was just very sensitive to heat i think... i don't know if this is your problem, but the symptoms are exactly the same... try underclocking your chip and see if it works. there is a fan on the chipset too, make sure it still is functioning... mine took a dump and i didn't notice till i booted with the case open. later, On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:35, Oeystein Olsen filled my inbox with: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 22:26, Matt Whiteley wrote: > > So, my shrike box is locking up periodically on the screensaver. It is > > not locking up when the screensaver starts but from my best guess when > > it tries to shut down the monitor, or perhaps when changing to another > > random screensaver. It locks to the point where the keyboard isn't > > reactive (numlock or capslock keys will not toggle the lights) and you > > cannot ssh to the box. > > How do I track down the problem here? I was running evolution, mozilla, > > xmms, and xchat when the screensaver became active. This is a real pain > > as I had to do a hard reboot and then my software raid mirror takes a > > couple hours to resync itself. > > > > The machine is older and fully supported from what I can tell: > > > > ABIT KT7A-RAID > > ATI Radeon 32 mb ddr > > This is might not be related, but my laptop locks up the same way. The only > solution is to use the powerbutton. This happens with the pulsar > screensaver. If I click on the screensaver in the controlpanel (KDE) the > preview starts up, but freezes everything after less than one second. I've > got an ati radeon 7500, 32mb. -- michael jones * erleichda archiving * usa
