System freezes

[Ben Sheron]

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 05:40, Thomas Fortner wrote:
> Hi, I'm new here.  I just installed Redhat Linux 9 on my workstation,
> with all the packages installed.  The computer is running dual AMD MP
> 2800s, with 512 MB of RAM.  I installed it fine, but when I started
> using it more, I noticed that the X server would freeze, and I
> wouldn't
> be able to move the mouse, or use the keyboard; I just had to shut off
> the power.  I ran the update manager, and it installed the 2.4.30-9smp
> kernel, which helped at first, but still doesn't make much of a
> difference.  Now it seems like every other time I boot up the comp
> freezes upon starting Mozilla, Ximian, or just playing some songs with
> XMMS.  Is this just an issue with the X server version (4.3.0)? 
> Sometimes just Mozilla crashes, and I can simply kill the process. 
> But
> often I have to reboot.
> 
> Thanks for any insight.
> 
> Ben
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I suspect that you will find you have a bad system board. I've seen
> this kind of problem before and that has always been what was causing
> the problem. 
> 
> I've built dual processor systems and run Red Hat on them before,
> although I haven't used AMD, and they ran well. One thing to watch,
> though, is that the kernel doesn't handle multiple SCSI adapters with
> hard drives well. If you have hard drives on more than one SCSI card,
> try removing the second adapter and see if the problem goes away.
> 
> Tom

Hi Tom, thanks for the response.

Ijust started booting to an earlier version of the kernel (2.4.20-8smp;
I had the problems with 2.4.30-8smp), and I've only had X freeze once. 
This happened while running XMMS, a terminal window, and Mozilla at the
same time.  But other than that there's been no problems.  

Ben