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