Re: machine hangs after buying new monitor
Bad news.. rebooted with a DOS 6.22 floppy, went for dinner,
came back: machine frozen, with message
Divide overflow
on the console. This is a 2 month old Pentium III 500E, never
overclocked, never overheated AFAIK. I did change the cooler on it a
few days back though, wonder if I broke something, and if I did, why
it took three days to manifest itself. Certainly the new cooler
seemed to work well (~34 C). Will try again with old
monitor, meanwhile any suggestions welcome (e.g. how to get a refund
for my broken Pentium if applicable)
-chris
Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
> OK quickly before it hangs again..
> can't be sure they're related, but it only started hanging after I set
> up the new monitor.. new monitor means new modelines etc., so I guess it
> could have something to do with my ati xpert 98 putting out higher
> bandwidth.. or not at all. It did hang three times with no X running
> though: one kernel panic after rebooting from the first hang, then
> it hung during fsck, then it hung at the login prompt after entering
> runlevel 1. It's hung about six times in the past two hours. A few
> days ago I tinkered with the cpu (put in a new fan) but no problems
> until now. Also I reinstalled sendmail last night, and installed
> mutt. OK, I have no idea. Tried rerunning lilo (in case a bit got
> flipped in the boot image) as well as another kernel from floppy, no
> go. Any suggestions on how to debug this welcome. Not even sure
> which logs to look through and what for.. -chris
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