system locks (p4, i845 chipset, kernel 2.4.21)
Installed Debian on a P4 (1.6GHz) with 128MB RAM, Intel i845 chipset, Intel eepro 100 ethernet card, nVidia GeForce2 MX video card, onboard Intel i8*0 audio. Set aside ~500MB swap. After I get everything installed and updated to 'testing' (and I've done this several times), the system inevitably locks. It doesn't matter if I'm in X or not (not using nVidia drives, anyhow), totally modular kernel with _no modules loaded_ (nothing beyond what I need to boot the system)... the system still locks (no input, no output).
I've checked the fans, and they are all working. I've tested the memory using memtest86 (booted into the diagnostic using the file supplied in the memtest package), ran a thorough test, and everything comes out fine. I have run Windows XP Professional on this system in the past without a problem. So I'm thinking it's unlikely that it is directly hardware related (bad memory, HDD, etc.), but rather that it probably has something to do with the kernel. Are there any known fatal bugs with the specific chipset or processor that I mentioned above? I am using kernel 2.4.21, currently (have compiled manually and tried the kernel-image-2.4.21-686 package with the same results), and Googling has turned-up nothing for me in that regard.
I would appreciate any insight.
-Joe
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