Hi! I have a strange problem. I have suse linux pro 7.3 on my computer. Sometimes, during my work or when the computer is idle, the pc beep and completely freeze. Two lights on the keyboard are blinking and I must turn off and restart the computer. What is the source of this problem? Thanks for help! _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos est le moyen le plus simple de partager et imprimer vos photos : http://photos.msn.fr/Support/WorldWide.aspx
Hi!
I have a strange problem. I have suse linux pro 7.3 on my computer. Sometimes, during my work or when the computer is idle, the pc beep and completely freeze. Two lights on the keyboard are blinking and I must turn off and restart the computer. What is the source of this problem?
Thanks for help!
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On Saturday 09 February 2002 16:42, you wrote:
Hi!
I have a strange problem. I have suse linux pro 7.3 on my computer. Sometimes, during my work or when the computer is idle, the pc beep and completely freeze. Two lights on the keyboard are blinking and I must turn off and restart the computer. What is the source of this problem?
Thanks for help!
This could be caused by a lot of things. It definitely sounds like a hardware-related problem. Try removing all of your PCI/ISA devices, then replacing them one by one to find which causes the problem. If your pc-speaker beeps in any pattern, check your motherboard's documentation to see what the beeps mean. It could also be due to an unstable driver. Are you using nVidia graphics drivers on an AMD? If so, you might be able to fix it by putting mem=nopentium in LILO's boot parameters for the kernel. Again, this could be the result of many things, and it's hard to tell without some more info. -- Max Bane All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -- Sean O'Casey
Would you please list your hardware, MB manufacturer, CPU, any video cards installed,
etc., etc. This would help out a great deal with trying to resolve the problem.
Jim
02/09/02 04:42:07 PM, ""
Hi!
I have a strange problem. I have suse linux pro 7.3 on my computer. Sometimes, during my work or when the computer is idle, the pc beep and completely freeze. Two lights on the keyboard are blinking and I must turn off and restart the computer. What is the source of this problem?
Thanks for help!
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On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:42:07PM -0500, martinr_richard@msn.com wrote:
Hi!
I have a strange problem. I have suse linux pro 7.3 on my computer. Sometimes, during my work or when the computer is idle, the pc beep and completely freeze. Two lights on the keyboard are blinking and I must turn off and restart the computer. What is the source of this problem?
Thanks for help!
By any chance, do you have a an ESS Maestro2 sound card? There is a known problem with the Maestro2 and 7.3 that has similar symptoms. It would not show up until you enabled the sound card. It's a long shot. Regards, K -- the me that you know is now made up of wires -- reznor
At 17:42 02/09/2002 -0500, wrote:
Hi!
I have a strange problem. I have suse linux pro 7.3 on my computer. Sometimes, during my work or when the computer is idle, the pc beep and completely freeze. Two lights on the keyboard are blinking and I must turn off and restart the computer. What is the source of this problem?
Thanks for help!
It's possible that one or more of the fans in your computer is not blowing at its full blast, and things are overheating. I would look at that first. --doug
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, wrote:
I have a strange problem. I have suse linux pro 7.3 on my computer. Sometimes, during my work or when the computer is idle, the pc beep and completely freeze. Two lights on the keyboard are blinking and I must turn off and restart the computer. What is the source of this problem?
Hard to tell without further information. The blinking keyboard LEDs indicate that the kernel has "panicked" - it crashed. The beep could have various reasons - does you mainboard have an overtemperature warning? Maybe your CPU overheats and makes Linux crash? Is the CPU fan working OK? Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90429 Nuernberg, Germany To give happiness is to deserve happiness.
I'm with the writer. It sounds like a hardware problem, and overheating is the most logical cause. Make sure not only that your fans are all turning, but that they look like they're turning at a rate you'd expect. I have seen some fans that turn, but very slowly. OTOH, I have a famous make computer at work that complains every so often. It doesn't crash, it just complains. Think Compaq. The computer that will not let me add a second hard drive, even tho it has two drive outputs, and only has a cd-read on the other one. No matter what I try! --doug At 12:40 02/11/2002 +0100, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, wrote:
I have a strange problem. I have suse linux pro 7.3 on my computer. Sometimes, during my work or when the computer is idle, the pc beep and completely freeze. Two lights on the keyboard are blinking and I must turn off and restart the computer. What is the source of this problem?
Hard to tell without further information. The blinking keyboard LEDs indicate that the kernel has "panicked" - it crashed. The beep could have various reasons - does you mainboard have an overtemperature warning? Maybe your CPU overheats and makes Linux crash? Is the CPU fan working OK?
Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90429 Nuernberg, Germany To give happiness is to deserve happiness.
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I have had a similar issue in the past, that turned out to be software related. In my case it was running multiple versions of vmware. Very similar issues with the num lock button blinking and a hard reset the only way to restore. Ron On Saturday 09 February 2002 17:42, wrote:
Hi!
I have a strange problem. I have suse linux pro 7.3 on my computer. Sometimes, during my work or when the computer is idle, the pc beep and completely freeze. Two lights on the keyboard are blinking and I must turn off and restart the computer. What is the source of this problem?
Thanks for help!
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