On Wednesday May 12 2004 1:46 pm, N1UAN Bob wrote:
Hi Just wondering if people out on the list could give me some ideas what could be locking up my machine seems i had 4 or 5 lockups in the past day and half the caps lock and the other two lights start blinking and we cant type anything on the keyboard then have to reboot so looking for some ideas what might be doing this we seen this before happen but when it happen before it maybe did it once and after reboot then ok but this time seems to be more thanks for any info Bob
The blinking keyboard LEDs usually indicates a kernel panic. Your challenge is to figure out what its panicing on. Check log files for any indications of problems. Check Ctrl+Alt+F10 to see if errors are appearing before the lockup. Bad hardware can cause this such as a failing harddrive, a power supply that is going bad, bad RAM, etc. It could be that last bit of software you added/updated and is now causing a conflict. You indicate its happened in the past but is now more frequent. This is most often a hardware problem just before absolute failure. Stan