[ale] system freezes

[Greg Clifton]

Well if RAM and power are OK (likely are after 24hrs. and no errors w/
memtest) I suspect you may have issues with your hard drive. Does your hard
drive light stay on when the system freezes? Have you scanned the disk for
errors? Sleep mode/power settings on the hard drive?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM, mike barnes <mdb3624 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tim,
>
> I sorry for the scan details.
>
> First off, the problem is random and I have not checked to see if I can
> telnet into the box.
> I have run memtest86 for 24 hours straight without any issues.
>
> On time that does not seem to be random is when the system has had some
> amount of time with no activity.
>
> The system is is a 4 year old desktop with 1 gb of memory and 160gb of disk
> space.
> This is my test machine so, I have done fresh installs on this system with
> the same behavior.
> When it locks up I am am forced to do a hard re-boot using the front panel
> buttons.
>
> As for apps that I use, currently I am mostly using firefox. I have had it
> freeze when doing a system update, using the update manager tool.
>
> Hope this helps because I am getting frustrated with this system.
>
> Thanks
> Mike Barnes
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Tim Watts <timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Based on these scant details probably not. Can you be more specific? For
>> example:
>>
>>      * At what point does it freeze? during boot up? after you login?
>>        after you start a particular app?
>>      * Is the system running X?
>>      * Is it a laptop? desktop? blade?
>>      * Does it hum merrily along for a while then randomly freeze? or
>>        does it consistently freeze at the same point?
>>      * After it freezes can you access it by other means? ssh? ping?
>>      * Are you forced to do a hard boot? or ctrl-alt-del?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 20:50 -0500, mike barnes wrote:
>> > I have a system that consistently freezes up forcing me to re-boot my
>> > computer. I have used both unbuta 9.10 and opensuse 11.1 with the same
>> > results.
>> >
>> > Can someone help me figure out what is causing this.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Mike
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