Not necessarily, this strengthens the posibility of memory and/or swap space problems to me. In otherwords, some big JPG in the background means more memory swaps which means a better chance to hit the bad spot. Course, you're right though, could very well be software or compiler related as well. On Monday 20 October 2003 11:26 am, Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > Seems to be software related! ever since I changed my desktop backgrounds > back to something simple (solid color) it has not rebooted. As soon as > I'm done building mod-ssl apache, I'm going to play around with the > backgrounds and see if I can get it to reboot at random! > > I haven't touched the hardware in this box for like ever! > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:09:29 -0500 (CDT), Brian <lxy at cloudnet.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Todd Young wrote: > >> There was a batch of bad capacitors that hit the market, I know IBM used > >> them, but I'm not sure how many other manufacturers did. > > > > Intel used them for awhile as well. I don't remember the chipset, but if > > you've got a PIII Intel board 700-1Ghz you may experience this problam. > > > > As for your reboot problem, any chance you're overworking your power > > supply? I once had too many HDs hooked up to my 300watt and it didn't > > occur to me for a week why my computer was rebooting constantly. > > > > -Brian > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Maas - Technology Architect Open Technology Systems, LLC ----------------------------------------------------------- eMail: bmaas at open-techsys.com Web: http://www.open-techsys.com Phone: 952.448.3121 Fax: 952.448.4944 Cell: 612.743.3674 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list