Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Ben Rosenberg <ben@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I've had 2 complete system freezes in the last 30 minutes. I guess
I'm glad I have reiserFS formatted drives.

I've tried the suggestions about the bios and the NIC card that the list
provided and they appeared to work for 2 days. Today however the system
froze while cutting/pasting a URL from mutt then after a reboot and
restart of the xterms and mozilla that I needed. It simply froze after
typing mutt. The program didn't even start before it froze.

I took the advice of several people and checked the IRQ's in the bios.
They were all set to auto, so I set PCI slots 1,2 and 3 to IRQ's 9,10,
and 11 while leaving PCI slots 4/5 as auto since I have nothing plugged
into these slots. I replaced the 3Com Vortex TX100 card with an SMC card
model "[SMC] EtherPower II 10/100" because some though that the 3Com
driver was the culprit in this situation. I now think it's not. My 8.1
box is completely up to date as far as patches for 8.1.

I'm really at my wits end with this freezing crap. If I can't fix it
soon. I guess I'll have no choice but to revert back to 8.0 and it's
700+ megs of patches. At least it worked fine.

If anyone has any suggestions at this point I'll try them. I've attached
a plain text file called hw which is the output of hwinfo --all. If
anyone sees anything weird about the output then please let me know.
Other wise I will have to find another solution to this. This machine
ran 7.1, 7.3 and 8.0 without a problem so I know it's not the machine.
The CPU isn't overheating..I have huge CoolerMaster CPU fan/heat that
has it cooled to 55-57C which is well within Athlon/Duron specs.

I just frankly have no damn clue what's up with this anymore.

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