I'm having some annoying problems with hardware (purchased from one of the TCLUG classified's incidentally!) and I was hoping maybe someone's had similar issues and can offer some advice. Anyway, it's a SuSE 8.1 box, PIII 500 I think - I can get detailed specs the next time it's up. Every now and then it just goes down, no messages in any of the logs. Sometimes when I'm logged in and working on it, sometimes overnight. Right now it seems to go down once or twice every 24 hours or so. Last time it happened in the middle of the night and I left an ssh connection tailing the messages log. In the morning it was dead, nothing interesting on the log window. Nothing interesting in any of the other logs either. The power lights are on near the front power/reset switch, but the switches are unusable, even when held in for a minute. In this state the monitor just shows a black screen - it's connected via KVM and the KVM light for this box is on as well. The back power switch does power the unit off though so I don't have to yank the cord. :) My guesses are either a) bad power supply or b) bad video card. The only two peripherals are a video card and a NIC. I had thought that I replaced the video card on this box already once though... Anyone have any thoughts on how to determine what the culprit is here? Most of the hardware I've purchased has worked pretty well so I do not have much experience dealing with these kinds of problems. Thanks, Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list