Re: hard lock ups
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:39:14PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:39, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 07 Feb 2003, Scott Henson wrote:
> > > The past few days I have been experiencing some hard lock-ups on my
> > > computer and I was wondering if anyone had an idea of what was going
> > > on. Basically the screen freezes and the caps lock and scroll lock
> > > lights blink about once a second. The box will not respond to anything
> > > including network traffic. I am using kernel 2.4.21-pre3-ac5, but it
> > > also happens under 2.4.20 and a few others. All I have in my logs is
> > > this.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Have you recently opened the case for any reason? I had exactly these
> > symptoms recently and eventually found it was due to my having displaced
> > the data cables to the hard drives slightly. It was particularly
> > difficult to diagnose because I had just upgraded my CPU with an
> > Upgradeware adapter and naturally assumed at first that the trouble
> > was there. I even replaced the PSU, thinking it might be that, but the
> > roblem persisted at intervals. It finally disappeared after I unplugged
> > all the data cables and put them back.
>
> Nope, but the problem seems to have gone away for now. It seems to
> happen every few months and I would really like to track it down.
> Usually if I let the machine sleep(turn it off) for a night, it is all
> better the next morning. I just find it really weird and annoying and
> would like to figure out why it is doing it. Maybe its just something
> weird about my hardware. Thanks anyway.
That does sound like a dodgy-connection problem. Try the unplugging
and replugging of data cables mentioned above - do the PCI(/AGP) cards
too. This tends to clean the contacts and resolves a lot of
dodgy-connection problems.
Pigeon
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