Guest jjthebear Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Hell o everybody, this is my first post on this forum, so here I am :) My problem is that I just installed Mandrake 10.0 (not the community version) and every now and then it just crashes. Everything freezes, nothing moves, no combinations of buttons causes a response, and I have to reboot. It has happened to me when I've been in X, when I've been at the command line, and twice when I was booting up and checking the filesystem for integrity (after it crashing). So, my question is, what can I do about it? I've ran memtest86 and my memory is fine. I'm running an ASUS NForce 2, AMD Athlon XP, Microsoft USB Optical Mouse, Standard Keyboard, built in NIC, GeForce 4 AGP video card (with the NVidia driver's installed, but I installed them in response to the crashes, it hasn't fixed anything), and 512 megs of DDR RAM. I have an 80 gig hard disk with 3 partitions, one thats like 70 gigs for Window$, 6 for Linux (2 or 3 of which are used), and a bit for SWAP space. So what do I do? This is very frustrating because outside of these random crashes Mandrake 10 is awesome! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 welcome to the board! Is there anything in the logs? /var/log/messages var/log/XFree86.0.log ~/.xsession-errors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jjthebear Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 The messages file was nonexistant. The .xsession-errors was also non existant. There were a couple of files named XFree86.x.log (x being 9 at the highest) but they didn't contain anything indicating failure. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 what does "~/anything" mean what does ~/ mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 what does ~/ mean? /home/Sherpa ? I recently troubleshooted a smiliar problem. First is the ram check and you did that :) I would next try and reseat all pci cards and the memory and see if that helps. While inside the box double check your fans are running and clear of dust. Next, did you build this yourself ? Do you remember putting in the cpu and heatsink. If you used one of those peal off contact thingies instead of real thermel paste... take a look at the solution I found to my problem. http://www.MandrakeUsers.org/index.php?sho...ndpost&p=107810 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jjthebear Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Well, I think I found my problem. I changed the FSB Spread Spectrum from 1.0 to 0.5 and now no more crashes :) Thanks for your help guys, if it happens again I'll post put I've gone for an hour and a half with no problems. How come Window$ worked with it but Linux didn't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jjthebear Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 DANG NABBIT! <sighs> After 2 hours of clean operation my computer was playing music and BAM! It went down again. Then I rebooted and it wouldn't boot, so I rebooted again and did a filesystem check and it crashed again (it always crashes at about 80 something percent). So I guess I still havn't found my problem... I didn't not build this computer myself and am fairly confident that they used decent thermal paste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 (edited) so ~/.xsession-errors for me would mean /home/sherpa/.xswssion-errors right? sorry im off on a tangent, but i am trying to finish off my noobieness Edited May 30, 2004 by Sherpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jjthebear Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 YES! You could have just used a UNIX console and found out... Now get out of my thread :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 jjthebear Just for a shot. Have you updated everything? Mine ran slow as snails racing untill I did the total update available to me. Since then stable and running fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingbyu Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 I seem to be having a very similar issue. The system with the problems is running very different hardware though. Its a P4 2.4Ghz (non-ht) on an intel motherboard and has a matrox millenium g550 dual-head video card. With mandrake 10 official, it will go and go and go, and then everything freezes. No key-combinations or remote access stuff will get the thing to budge. Eventually the screen turns black because of the powersave feature on the monitor. I've upgraded the kernel to the latest one from the standard repositories. Here is the strange thing though. When putting knoppix in, it will run fine without problems at all. Thats right, things don't freeze up in knoppix at all, but they do, randomly, in mandrake. I haven't yet done a mem test or other things, but I thought I would ask here if a solution was found to jjthebear's problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 kingbyu: are you using the nvidia drivers? jjthebear: are you comfortable editing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 like you did to get the nvidia drivers working? If so, try placing: Option "NvAGP" "1" below your: Driver "nvidia" line. also, have you installed the nforce2 drivers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingbyu Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 Why would I want to use the nvidia dirvers if it is not a nvidia video card? Its a matrox card and the mandrake x configurator app (whatever its called) recognizes the card correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 Why would I want to use the nvidia dirvers if it is not a nvidia video card? Its a matrox card and the mandrake x configurator app (whatever its called) recognizes the card correctly. erm, hm, uh... I'm stupid, i didn't read what card you were using. sorry... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 Just a thought..... Sometimes to get what you want it helps to be friendly :D Semantics... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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