Re: Pentium Freezes (Potato)
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 08:53:54PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently purchased a pentium machine (HP Vectra VL Series 4 5/100,
> 32M). I installed debian upon it but noticed that the machine would
> freeze up on occasion even in initial installation (badblocks read
> test [rw worked fine]). Eventually I installed the whole system, but
> when re-compiling the kernel, again, system-freeze.
>
> So I compiled a kernel on another machine (2.4.17) and brought it over
> but still, on occasion the machine freezes. This is very troubling
> because the drives are out of sync and I am currently faced with some
> inodes in lost+found left over from the last time it froze - while
> installing rsh-server via dpkg. The nodes in lost+found are related to
> dpkg and/or apt; dpkg no longer works due to a parse in
> /var/lib/dpkg/avaialble.
>
> It also freezes up during compiles - such as when compiling a kernel
> or utils-linux.
>
> My first notion of what might be wrong is the memory, so I pulled down
> a copy of memtest but the memory checked out fine. Next I assumed that
> the pentium chip itself was overheating and purchased a fan for the
> CPU. But, again, it froze.
>
> The machine itself uses the Intel PCIset chipset.
>
> Any ideas? and thank you for any help.
You're not using SCSI, are you?
Crispin
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