HP Laptop froze with CAPS lock blinking
My computer HP dv4000 just froze, and the caps lock light was blinking. This is the third time it has happen and every time it occurs I am always doing something different and does not occur at a regular interval. The commonality is I am typing. And the only way to recover is to do a hard reboot. I have check the logs and no error messages are generated. The only thing I could think of is some how I am forcing the comp into a sleep/hibernate mode through the use of the fn key. I should also note that when I was typing I did not press the caps key. The only problem is when I try to reproduce the problem nothing happens. So I am to think maybe some else is causing the problem. Has anyone else come across or know what this problem is? Cheers Rylan
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 20:22, Rylan Cottrell wrote:
My computer HP dv4000 just froze, and the caps lock light was blinking.
A flashing caps-lock is normally a kernel panic.
This is the third time it has happen and every time it occurs I am always doing something different and does not occur at a regular interval.
My first thought is "bad RAM chip." Try booting into the memcheck option provided by Suse/Ubuntu CDs/DVDs and let that run a while. If that fails, a sure-fire way to flush out a bad RAM chip is to try to compile something (preferably a large source tree) with gcc. In my experience, gcc will catch a bad RAM chip faster than anything (by failing to compile, but in mysterious ways). -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 20:25, stephan beal wrote:
option provided by Suse/Ubuntu CDs/DVDs and let that run a while. If that fails, a sure-fire way to flush out a bad RAM chip is to try to
Sorry for the ambiguity: by "fails" i meant "does not reveal a problem". -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts
If possible turn on sshd in your laptop which allows an external user to login via ssh. The prove that you can get into your laptop from another computer, assuming you have one around. Then the next time the keyboard and computer goes wonky try to ssh into the laptop. If that works then use "top" and specifically look at X (the X server) stats. I have had stuff like this happen and X goes to 100% cpu usage a bug that appeared during the last update to xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-50.24 It would be interesting to hear back from you the results if possible. Cheers, Bob
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Robert Lewis
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Rylan Cottrell
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stephan beal