Hi all, I have some weird problems here. SuSE suddenly either gets stuck (no blinking, can't move pointer and have to take the battery out) or the power goes down (ie computer shuts itself off. Pretty much the same thing happens in Windows too. I am running Suse8.2/XD2 on a Toshiba laptop P4. I have two hypotheses but I don't know anything about hardware to test them. 1. It's the laptop turning itself off. Given that it's a P4 inside it produces enough heat to provide for a small Polar community. (weird though that it hasn't done it before) 2. It's the new wireless card (Netgear MA521) which I installed a couple of weeks ago which coincides with when the problems started. I have already notices that the Netgear.sys in Windows crashes it on occasion and gives up some blue fault windows. Nothing like that in Linux though... Any ideas, suggestions or just words of encouragement would be greately appreciated... thanks, james. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 12:37 pm, James Philp wrote:
Hi all,
I have some weird problems here. SuSE suddenly either gets stuck (no blinking, can't move pointer and have to take the battery out) or the power goes down (ie computer shuts itself off. Pretty much the same thing happens in Windows too.
I am running Suse8.2/XD2 on a Toshiba laptop P4.
I have two hypotheses but I don't know anything about hardware to test them.
1. It's the laptop turning itself off. Given that it's a P4 inside it produces enough heat to provide for a small Polar community. (weird though that it hasn't done it before)
2. It's the new wireless card (Netgear MA521) which I installed a couple of weeks ago which coincides with when the problems started. I have already notices that the Netgear.sys in Windows crashes it on occasion and gives up some blue fault windows. Nothing like that in Linux though...
Any ideas, suggestions or just words of encouragement would be greately appreciated...
thanks, james.
Have you tried removing the card to see if the problems go away? Is there a resource conflict(irq,dma,i/o with something important? Check device manager in winblows(2000 XP) or hardware something or other in 95,98,me. Have you checked /var/log/warn to see if any messages have to do with the card? How about disabling apci. I forget how to do this but I know it's in the sdb. HTH -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 12:27 pm, Franklin Maurer wrote:
1. It's the laptop turning itself off. Given that it's a P4 inside it produces enough heat to provide for a small Polar community. (weird though that it hasn't done it before)
If you are running your laptop continuously you might want to get one of those laptop coolers. Generally they are a thin piece of aluminum with two fans. It lifts the laptop up and blows air under it. My Compaq now recharges the battery 100% and maintains it! Before the cooler was installed, the only way I could get the battery to charge was to turn off the machine for a while and let it cool down. My brother;s Dell runs so cool the fans no longer come on where they were running all the time. I picked up a couple of the things at a computer show in LA for about 20 bucks. You may be able to find some on the net for around that price. Richard
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