>>> > With the exception of being perfectly able to telnet/ftp I've had
>>> > the exact same problem myself. It turned out that it was 'just' my
>>> > Xserver crashing. So I'm going to ask a potentially stupid question
>>> > just to make sure: You can telnet/ftp into it under normal conditions
>>> > right?
>>>
>>> Yep, no problems before, or now after rebooting. From the Windows box, I
>>> telneted to a shell account at my ISP, and from there I could ping
>>> wim.dhis.org, a hostname for my dynamic IP. So... ping is working, and the
>>> kernel is still working fine, because it is forwarding IP's properly.
>>>
>>> The "three-fingered salute" mentioned by someone else did not work.
>>> Basically,
>>> the keyboard/mouse were dead.
>>>
>>> Before this motherboard, I had an Asus P5A with an intel 740 AGP Real 3d
>>> starfighter, and that was continually locking up, even in Windows 98.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Are you serious about that?
>
I am serious. It was locking up 2-3 times a day, doing random things like
starting a program, doing nothing, clicking a button. The demo programs that
came with the card to demonstrate the 3D capabilities caused to to freeze
especially. I think it was just a bad motherboard/video card combo, the video
card didn't really like the chipset on the motherboard. I now have the A-trend
mb and an ATI 3d rage pro.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Are you serious about that?
>
>>> I am not overclocking, just running at normal board speed of 100mhz x 3.5.
>>> I
>>> have a fan on the cpu, and a power supply fan. Do I need another case fan?
>
> I'm far from an expert when it comes to stuff like this, but I simply can't
> believe
> that hardware-problem could crash one part of the computer but not another.
> Except possibly bad SIMMs.
>
> I'm still going to push the theory that the Xserver is to blame. Since you're
> on
> a network, maybe you could get X-win32 (an xserver for windows) and use
> that for a while, and see if this hangs the computer, (the one with linux
> on.)
What do you mean by this? Connect to my Linux box through another computer?
One of the other boxes is a 486-66, the other is a Pentium 100, both with
windows 95. Rather painful speed wise :) not an option for full-time use.
I don't want too boot into Windows, it is just tooooo painful. I can't
remember that last time I rebooted (into Windows).
>>> I was using the netscape, just html pages.
> This sounds familiar.
I meant to say that I wasn't doing anything that had Java or any of that fancy
stuff.
Thanks,
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Wim Kerkhoff
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