Re: Hard Lockups can't happen (can they?)
On 27 Mar 2005, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Sunday 27 March 2005 11:25, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:19 am, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > > Obviously nothing appears in the logs, as the last few writes to
> > > disk are lost, so has anyone any ideas about how to debug this?
> >
> > Double check and make sure all drive and power cables are plugged in
> > securely, and it might not hurt to take out and reseat the RAM on the
> > motherboard. Usually when I see that kind of weirdness, it's
> > indicative of a loose connection.
>
> I find it stange that if its a hardware problem that its software thats
> causing it. But I am double checking this.
>
> Another datapoint is that when I complete a game of Sirtet it also is crashing
> - I think when it is reading/updating the worldwide scores. So it looks to
> be communications related.
>
> --
Make sure you didn't leave a cable touching the CPU fan. I did this once
during an upgrade and the consequent overheating caused lockups.
Anthony
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