Re: Linux freezing up
On 03-Aug-99 Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
>>
>> I have on several occasions experienced a lockup of my system. For no
>> apparent reason, it will freeze up. It will not respond to any keyboard
>> control: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't kill X, Ctrl-c, Ctrl-z, Ctrl-Alt-Del
>> don't
>> do anything. Caps lock, etc don't toggle the keyboard lights either.
>> I'm running:
>> -Kernel 2.2.10
>> -Potato
>> -AMD K6-350 on an A-trend Motherboard
>
> I've had similar problems that weren't limited to potato or
> 2.2.10, they happened when I ran slink and a 2.0.36 kernel too. I
> also had a similar setup as you: amd-k62 250, kernel 2.2.10, and
> an epox mobo.
>
> My system would lock up hard, I couldn't even ping the net from
> my windows box. I can't count how many times I gave the old three
> finger salute to my system.
>
> I thought it was netscape that gave me all the problems, and it
> did seem to be a common denominator. I tried different
> windowmanagers too with the same results. Last week I through in
> the towel and dropped my 333 MHz celeron into my box and I've had
> almost no problems (today it crapped out for some reason). I'm
> running a libc5 version of netscape and I'm using Enlightenment
> and gnome for X.
>
Has anyone else had problems with AMD being less stable than Intel?
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