Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas G. Willis
And Thomas, I have a pavilion, it runs flawless for a LONG time now, so, don't say that kinda stuff about it, my notebook have feelings, you know... oops sorry , I like the laptops actually, a lot, the Pavillion I had I bought used from someone was a desktop. The previous owner bought a mac cuz i

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Daniel da Veiga wrote: >On 4/28/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >>I ran into this with a family member recently, the CPU was running hot >>and the mobo was cutting the CPU off. The only way to get it back up >>again was to reboot. She kept doing this though, thinking it w

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/28/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fish wrote: > > > On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I've already run memtest86, no problem report. > > > > > > memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. > > > > Try this one instead: > > http://pe

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Teresa and Dale
Richard Fish wrote: > On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've already run memtest86, no problem report. > > > memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. > > Try this one instead: > http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html > > -Richard > I ran into this with a

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/28/06, Fernando Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. memtest86 is nearly useless on modern computers. Try this one instead: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:24:19 -0300 "Fernando Antunes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've already run memtest86, no problem report. positive testing of a hypothesis is not a proof of correctness. Negative testing is a proof of its falseness. That said, you can only validate the hypothesis of

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas G. Willis
The powersupply may be it then. I don't know whether the logs would tell you that though. I had freezing problems with my old box. I was only able to narrow it down when I got to a point where I could reproduce the problem reliably. In my case the logs were no help, but encoding a file to mp3 w

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Jarry
Fernando Antunes wrote: I've already run memtest86, no problem report. What about disks? Did you check smart-status? Download some utility (e.g. SeaTools for Seagate disks) and check disks without booting system... BTW, sudden freezing does not look like kernel panic... Jarry -- gentoo-user@g

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Fernando Antunes
I've already run memtest86, no problem report. On 4/28/06, Thomas G. Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And probably a portion of the remaining 1% have bad ram or a failing memory controller. On 4/28/06, Jason Dodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 99% of people with this issue have a cheap, insuff

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas G. Willis
And probably a portion of the remaining 1% have bad ram or a failing memory controller. On 4/28/06, Jason Dodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 99% of people with this issue have a cheap, insufficient power supply. Fernando Antunes wrote: > Hi, my Pentium 4 box freeze suddenly sometimes. Reboot is

Re: [gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Jason Dodson
99% of people with this issue have a cheap, insufficient power supply. Fernando Antunes wrote: > Hi, my Pentium 4 box freeze suddenly sometimes. Reboot is a only solution. > I can try to figure out for a especific use or especific application > to associate, but no success. > I suspect this is a h

[gentoo-user] My box freezee sometimes

2006-04-28 Thread Fernando Antunes
Hi, my Pentium 4 box freeze suddenly sometimes. Reboot is a only solution. I can try to figure out for a especific use or especific application to associate, but no success. I suspect this is a hardware problem or misconfigured driver. Where I find last kernel panic logs after reboot ? What are t