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Re: Hard Lockups can't happen (can they?)



On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 17:41 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Sunday 27 March 2005 17:09, Paul Fraser wrote:
> > Not if the fan were stopped entirely.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
> >
> > On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 11:46 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> ...
> > > 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.
> >
> > Wouldn't you hear buzzing noise from the fan slapping the cable?
> 
> Thanks for the idea's guys BUT
> 
> The computer runs for hours (all yesterday afternoon, evening and through the 
> night) without problems yet...
> 
> ...hangs solid within seconds of using konqueror (from KDE 3.4 from 
> experimental).
> 
> So IT COULD BE a very specific hardware fault, but ... I can still browse 
> perfectly happily for hours with Firefox.
> 
> and WHY can a userland application such as konqueror crash the operating 
> system. (and more importantly HOW do I put some debug in to find out what is 
> doing it).

Maybe it's very stressful on the system?

I'd check to see if the RAM is seated properly.

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