>The crackling sound sounds like the scan that updates your find dB. When you >do a find on your computer it checks this dB for locations of things(to be >simple). Anyway I think you Linux parts are too big, hence it seems as if it >locking up. I had this problem. I would split /dev/hda7 and /dev/hda4 into >different partitions such as:
That was a good hint, but that doesn't explain why it happens both under Linux and Win98. Some other strange things: when I give the CPU some work to do (like constantly playing MP3 files) it stops. I also noted that the internal clock runs slow (about a second an hour), so I think I'll bring it back for a replacement: the machine is four days old. -- Hans
