Dotan Cohen wrote:
> After some uptime, my system hangs- it is not responsive to keyboard
> nor mouse. The red disk light is not on, and there is not response to
> CTRL-ALT-DEL or any other keypresses. This is on a one-hour old
> system. The last system, Kubuntu did the same thing. This started
> abouth two weeks ago, but has been becoming more frequent. The machine
> is a P4 256MG RD-RAM machine. Does this seem to be a hardware fault?
> How can I check it? Thanks.
* Have you tried memtest86? It's on all the recent Fedora install CDs
and DVDs (type memtest86 at the first prompt). It will diagnose
(most) memory errors.
* Have you tried booting into runlevel 3 and run as much as you know
how to in text mode? Something involving /dev/urandom, bzip2 and cmp
might be a good idea.
If the system is any more reliable doing this, then suspect the
graphics hardware or drivers.
Hope this helps,
James.
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