On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:00 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > On 9/26/07, David Hough <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm trying to work out what's wrong with one of my Fedora 7 systems. It > > suffers random seizures, sometimes completely locking up, other times > > apparently suffering partial lock-ups of one or two windows (as in they > > won't update the screen when clicked but others still work), followed > > shortly by a complete lock-up. Sometimes when locked up I can still ping > > it, although attempting ssh gets in but never provides a prompt (but see > > below). On reboot there's no clue in the syslog. The previous FC6 > > installation was rock-solid. Running a Xen kernel or VMWare (not on a > > Xen kernel) seems to guarantee a crash much faster than if I don't run > > either. > > > > Initial thoughts were about the Evil nVidia Binary Driver, but I swapped > > the graphics card for an ATI one and I still get lock-ups, so > > uninstalling the nVidia driver didn't fix it. I've left it running > > memtest overnight and it was quite happy. > > [snip] > > > > Choose VESA and test again. > It just died with the VESA driver as well. I'm guessing it's a hardware issue but short of replacing the motherboard/CPU, I'm running out of ideas.
