On Sunday 22 May 2005 21:11, Scott Leighton wrote:
I've been using 9.3 now for a while, but it's unusable, due to random lockups/freezes. The problems started after a clean install of 9.3. The system crashes at completely random times (using KDE as window manager). When the systems freezes, I'm unable to switch to another runlevel, and the music hangs. My Windows XP doesn't show this kind of behaviour, so I think it isn't a problem with hardware. I've installed today Fedora Core 3 with KDE 3.3, but the freezing problem was still there. Is it a problem with the kernel? With KDE? I dunno. I'm now quite desperate, because I absolutely don't now how to tackle this problem! I had freezes on my AMD box that didn't show up with XP. Turned out it was hardware, memory to be exact. I had to throttle back the memclock timing to DDR333 from DDR400 when I bumped the memory to 1024 from 512. Once I did that, everything stabilized and ran fine.
Same here, with Windows '98. It would freeze under Windows only if I was recording video. Turned out the memory error was in the high part of the RAM, which I use regularly under Linux, but hardly ever under Windows. Run your memory checker before looking for other explanations. It may save you a lot of time. :) Regards, Pieter Hulshoff