[olug] Machine Locking up, need hardware guru advice

[Eric Lusk]

Aside from making sure it isn't the ribbon cable, I
would install just one hard drive and one cdrom on the
same controller.  See if it will run ok on the primary
alone, nothing on secondary, and vise versa.
Have seen a situation where the guy ended up getting a
PCI UDMA controller to keep his motherboard
functioning....

--- "Nathan D. Rotschafer"
<nrotschafer at geniussystems.net> wrote:

> May also consider compiling in serial control for
> the box.  When I was
> having serious issues with one of my machines I did
> that and then hooked it
> up to the serial port of the other machine which
> lets you capture all
> messages and also shut it down correctly usually.
> 
> Just a thought,
> Nate
> 
> 
> On 8/9/04 1:30 PM, "Jon H. Larsen"
> <relayer at levania.org> wrote:
> 
> > Not sure how much this will help, but:
> > 
> > Put a bare-minimum linux distro on the system. 
> Make sure ssh is running
> > and that your firewall will let connections in.
> > 
> > Try some copy operations, or play an mp3.
> > 
> > When you run into a lock, try to ping or ssh into
> the box and check dmesg
> > or /var/log/messages for signs of problems.  When
> X locks up on me, I
> > typically ssh in from remote and shut the machine
> down properly to avoid
> > a possible Massive Filesystem Corruption (TM).
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
> 


=====
http://www.ericshaus.com


	
		
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail