No, it really dies. Occationally if there is sound playing when it happens, I get the ever-so-plesant single tone chirp of whatever it was on when the system stoped. On Saturday 09 February 2002 03:45 pm, you wrote: > Jay Kline wrote: > > I recently upgraded to an Athlon XP 1800+, and since then have been > > having my computer just lock up from time to time. I know there is the > > "bug" (or whatever its being called) that requires the mem=nopentium > > option on boot, and I have done that. I have yet to figure out what > > triggers the lock up, other than I am always in X (but then, I am ALWAYS > > in X). There is nothing in any log files I can find- it is almost as if > > the computer were unplugged. Anyone have any hints on this? > > > > Jay > > Is your machine locked up, or is X locked up? I've got an Athlon 800 which > is occasionally locking up in X, but I can log in from a terminal and kill > X, and everything works fine after that (until it locks up again). > > The mem=nopentium option doesn't seem to have any affect on this problem, > as far as I can tell. > > I have run this machine for a year with RedHat 6.1 and a 2.2.18 kernel > without troubles. The lockup has begun since I upgraded to RedHat 7.1 with > it's default 2.4.x kernel. > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com -- Tell the truth or trump--but get the trick. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"