Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[lsayre@xxxxxxxxxxx (lsayre)]

Eddie wrote:
> 
> I've got to have something wrong somewhere!
> 
> My machine locks up tight and causes a reboot randomly. Now, the reboot doesn't
> bother me, but the corrupt filesystem after a reboot DOES. It forces a complete
> reinstall! I tried using the rescue options and no luck.
> It usually gives one of these two errors,
> Bad superblock...or bad magic number.
> Trying to read other superblocks to fix the others fails.
> 
> my system is a
> p-133
> primary drive -> fujitsu 3.2 gig(brand new)
> <all of linux resides on the drive above...including swap>
> 
> secondary drive-> western-digital 1 gig
> Suse 5.2
> Kde 1.0
> 
> It  happens at random!
> 
> Any clues?
> Please
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My computer was doing exactly the same thing in Linux, OS/2, and Win95. 
Because of this I assumed a hardware problem.  My house is not air
conditioned and it's been HOT lately to say the least, but I finally got
around to installing a window AC unit in the room with the computer, and
the problem has (so far) gone away completely.  My computer must have
been getting too hot.  I've got one of those early Cyrix P200+ (gigantic
tracing, pre MMX, and pre low voltage core...) processors (mine is
headstamped IBM), and I suspect that it was overheating.  Either that,
or it's one of my memory chips on the frits (due to heat?).
 
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