On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:05 am, lorne wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:38 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:23, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > Hi folks. Question about MDK 9.1. I've been running 9.1 since it came > > > out, with few major problems. However, when I've booted my computer the > > > last 2 nights it makes it's way to the graphical login screen with no > > > noticeable problems, but the mouse won't move and the caps lock and > > > scroll lock lights are flashing as I'm prompted to log in. The numlock > > > light is not flashing nor is it lit at this time. Oh yeah, keyboard > > > doesn't work either. Now, since I'm the consumate Linux genius I hit > > > the reset button to reboot (can't get to another terminal). System > > > wants to run fsck, you know, "press Y in 5 seconds". So I press Y and > > > after a few minutes I'm left at a term window because system says > > > "can't fix file system". No graphics or X. I wonder what I should have > > > done. I ran drakxconf and checked the display config. Everything seems > > > ok, so get out of there and reboot again. This time all is well and I > > > make it to KDE. No prob for the rest of the night. Tonight the same > > > thing, i.e., mouse frozen, lights flashing, no keyboard, hit reset. > > > Computer reboots, sez to hit "Y" again to run fsck, but I pass on the > > > offer. Again all is well and here I am in KDE land. > > > > > > Any ideas what causes this behavior guys and gals? The computer's > > > behavior, not mine. :) > > > > > > TIA > > > > I can think of a number of things.... not least of which is heat. (bad > > fan) or bad memory. is there anything in /var/log/messages to indicate > > a problem. Have you opened up the box and Gently (as in no harder than > > your lungs can blow) blown the dust out. (Dustpuppy LIVES!) If fans > > and dust are all good to go.. try putting a desktop style fan blowing on > > the open side. If this seems to make things happy then it's definitely > > the fans .... Replace they CPU fan with a better quality one (They do > > wear out.) Also be sure to use some really high quality heat grease > > (Artic Silver comes to mind... but get the best you can find.) between > > the fan and CPU. If it doesn't improve things move to testing memory. > > Run something like memtest86 (freely available) overnight. In the > > morning you'll know if you've a bad stick. (it's a long and very > > complete test.) This really sounds like a hardware problem. Not > > software. > > I agree with James. Flashing like that could be OS related, but... based on > the way you explained it, I'm thinking hardware. What happens if you boot > to floppy or if you throw another HD in it and run winbloze? > > > james
I boot 5 OS's, because I can. WinXP, 2000 Pro, and 98 seem to work well although I use them infrequently. Don't use Redhat too often. Too user unfriendly in my opinion. However, I'm beginning to think that this problem would occur no matter what OS I'm booting, but since I use Mandrake 90% of the time... I was having a CDBurner problem in XP too. Spent many hours trying to resolve it. Seems to have disappeared by itself. I do agree with the hardware problem line of thought. -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake Linux v9.1
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