HI, Although I yet have to try all the suggestions but I doubt that the hardware might be at fault. I don't have a separate AGP card. Its onboard. Moreover my system works perfectly fine in Win 98. Very very less crashes compared to the reputaion of win98. Anyway I wd try to run X with open case and see if anything gets hot. Can it be due to HDD settings? I mean do I need to check the settings with hdparm and see whether they are in compliance with the recommended ones. I occasionally get these Spurious interrupt IRQ 7 messages. I don't know what it means. Regards, Mukhben. On 14 Nov 2002, Michael Dengler wrote: > Yes, I had this exact same problem with a Voodoo3 3000 card that got > VERY hot. In my dual boot system, the card would heat up and windows > would freeze completely. Under Linux, the exact same behaviour would > also occur. X would lock and, just like your system, a hard reboot was > required. When lockup occurred, I was foolish enough to touch the > heatsink on the video card and gave myself a nice blister. My Solution: > I bought a really nice fan that is mounted on a add-on card style mount. > (Install the fan in the expansion slot right above or below the video > card's GPU). Since then....no probs! > > Mike > > On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 11:46, Laurent Blume wrote: > > Mukhben Singh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am running Mandrake 9.0 distro and the X server 4.2.1 which came with > > > it. The problem is that, after using X for some time, my system locks up > > > completely. I mean no key combination works. No not even the Magic Sysrq. > > > The only option is a hard reset. > > > The symptoms: > > > 1. Mouse pointer disappears. > > > 2. No common action ( that means, I can't recreate it > > > intentionally. ) > > > 3. Occurs irrespective of GUI. KDE, Gnome all the same. > > > 4. Complete system freeze. > > > 5. May occur within minutes after the boot or after hours. > > > > IT sounds more like a hardware problem than a software one. I've seen > > those exact symptoms many times with overheating CPUs, and sometimes > > with other defective parts. > > You could check if the CPU fan is working correctly and is well adjusted > > to the CPU. If your mainboard allows it, check its temperature (though > > it's not always very accurate). > > > > Other tests would be trying to disable as many options as possible in > > the BIOS. > > Since you have everything on the MB, it doesn't seem likely there would > > be an hardware conflict. > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
