I had a similar issue except that it would happen under both Windows and Ubuntu. I started suspecting the power supply and continued to unplug devices like wireless cards until I couldn't go any further. I then called Dell and found out that my GX260 was known to have bad capacitors. I was able to identify them by the buldge. 24 hours later, I'm running Ubuntu without a hitch. On 9/30/06, Dan Drake <dan at dandrake.org> wrote: > > I'm running Ubuntu and for some time now, I've had a big problem with it > locking up. The machine simply won't run for more than 8-10 hours > without locking up. It just freezes, completely, and there's nothing in > the logs to suggest what went wrong. > > Sometimes it locks up after a little while, sometimes it goes all day. > This has been happening since summer and all this month, so heat is not > a problem. > > It seemed like a memory problem, but I ran memtest86 overnight (about 40 > passes total) and it showed no errors. So it seems like a kernel bug, or > a problem with the motherboard. Any suggestions on how to track down the > problem? > > I upgraded to Edgy Eft, since that has a new kernel, but an hour > after getting that going, it locked up just like before. > > This is very irritating. I use a Windows machine sometimes at work and > it's very depressing to see it run continuously for a week or more with > no problems while my Linux box crashes about once a day! > > Here's some specs: > > MSI KM3M-V motherboard > Sempron 1.75GHz cpu > 2 512MB sticks of Crucial RAM > > Suggestions for how to track down the problem? Thanks. > > Dan > > -- > Ceci n'est pas une .signature. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFHrA1WvEsgqF+1YQRAnsPAKC5zFpshTBWW12MS+n3yQBw1SvNpwCgsoBl > /IqIRaNunaksiZwyTGeHwTo= > =bjCR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -- Jeff Rasmussen GPG public key 0x9686C12F -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061010/13dbf622/attachment.htm