On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 03:54:16 -0600, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > Hello, Everyone :) > Has anyone seen the following problem: > I was running a few applications: wget, mirrordir, copydir > When I returned about fifteen minutes later, a screensaver was locked up > on my monitor, and the caps lock and scroll lock lights on my keyboard > were flashing on and off. I assumed that it was a screensaver related So many possibilities ... What graphics card and driver are you using? What does the command "glxinfo" show, anything obviously broken? Have a look at /var/log/messages and see if there's any errors at around the time the system froze. Also it could be APM related, try running "apm -s" and "apm -S" and see what happens. Have you configured acpid? What are you BIOS power management settings? Could also be any one of ... Overclocked/overheating CPU Overclocked/overheating graphics card Bad blocks on memory modules Other mobo timing issues (FSB speed) Buggy mobo BIOS Known issues with mobo chipset PSU related issues (insufficient power) For a long time, my system was running very unstable, and exhibiting the kind of behaviour you describe. Eventually it turned out the memory had gone bad. Replacing the memory solved every weird problem I'd seen. Maybe it's that simple in your case. - Keith
