Brandon Carl wrote:
Don't be. When I've had problems like this, it almost always turned out to be hardware. I'd check memory first. Let memtest86 run for a while
I'm not familiar with memtest86, how would I run it?
Download the Ultimate Boot CD, burn it, boot from it, and select Memtest. You can find it here: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com
on it. If that turns out OK, my next suggestion would be the power supply. Unless you have a way to test it, putting another one in is
I am pretty sure it is not the power supply, because it has been running worry free for a while now.
Doesn't matter. Everything dies eventually:-) Start by cleaning the case, though. Get one of those cans of compressed air and clean it out nice. It really made a difference for me.
The only other thing I could think of was maybe it was overheating, so I clocked the processor down a little bit. It is a sempron 2800+ machine running at 2.0 Ghz. (Stock 1.7 Ghz). The airflow on the machine isn't the best, but it hasn't choked out before. Could this be a valid reason for it to lock up?
Absolutely. Try turning off the overclocking to see what happens.
Also, are there any logs or anything I can look at to tell me the source of the problem?
Probably not. If it is a hardware problem (heat, power supply, air flow), there won't be a nice log entry to help. That is one reason why it sure sounds to me like a hardware problem. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) LinuxBrainDump, Linux HowTo's and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbrainddump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org