Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've got a machine here which is consistently locking solid after 1.5 > to 2 hours uptime and I'm looking for possible explanations. > > When it locks up, it just stops dead - no errors are logged at any time, > the keyboard and NICs are totally non-responsive (it won't even unblank > the screen or toggle caps/num/scroll lock). It basically acts like the > CPU overheated and shut down, but I would expect heat problems to have > also affected memtest86. Just in case, I've tried underclocking it, > but the CPU stubbornly runs at 900MHz no matter what I tell the BIOS. > > Any suggestions for what other than heat may have killed this box's > reliability? Is it probably heat even though memtest86 is fine? (And, > if so, why is it overheating now but not a month ago? The room it's in > is still around the same temperature.) > > Did you try turning off all power saving settings? Paul R