On Saturday 09 February 2002 05:39 pm, you wrote: > Jay Kline <list at slushpupie.com> 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? > > Do you have a relatively recent kernel (>2.4.10)? I know I had problems > with earlier ones, especially when the system ran out of memory. Do you > have a mem/swap/cpu meter going on your desktop anywhere? It might help > analyze the problem. Try installing the memtest image and putting something like image=/boot/memtest label=memtest root=/dev/md0 read-only optional vga=normal in your /etc/lilo.conf, then rerunning lilo, and rebooting. When I had a somewhat similar problem, it turned out to be a bad RAM chip, and when it was removed, so was the problem. -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------