system lock up

[Gordon Keehn]

chris wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am somewhat at a loss for how to debug this problem.
>
> Basically my system locks up, its a workstation grade Xeon I do 
> development on, essentially, the screen (in X) freezes, the keyboard 
> locks, the network locks (it stops responding to ping).  The only 
> visible indicator I get when it freezes is sometimes, I see a 4 or 5 
> pixel high band of grey/brown that spans the width of the window I am 
> currently working in.
>
> I dont see anything out of the ordinary that something is wrong, I can 
> let the system sit for days and it runs fine, but when I start doing 
> work on it, I start seeing the freezes (it froze up twice in about 3 
> hours today).  But sometimes I can work several days in a row without 
> a problem.
>
> I would like any ideas on how to debug this.
> Thanks in Advance
> chris
>
> My System:
> Motherboard: IWill DP533
> Processors: Dual 2.4GHz Xeon 533MHZ processors
> Video: ATI Radeon 6500LE
> Hard Drive: several small external SCSI Hard drives
> Memory: 1G RAM
> O/S: Fedora Core 4
>
> thanks in advance.
>
Hi, Chris
    I've seen this problem myself in FC3, and in Win2K.  In each case 
the problem was a mismatched video driver.  The common factor is the 
line across the screen when the system locks up.
    Cheers,
Gordon Keehn