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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory." John Kenneth Galbraith
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