| Stephen Gran on Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:29:38 -0500 |
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On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 09:43:25PM -0500, Mitch Maltenfort said: > > For the past week or so, I've had an annoying problem with my Linux > laptop. > > The beast occasionally reboots. Usually this happens right at log-in, but > now it's begun during operations in graphics mode. > > I figure there's three suspects, and any advice in tracking down which -- > and how to fix it! -- would be appreciated. > > 1) Comcast cable modem. This is my first time using this system with > Comcast. It was fine with DirectTV DSL back in DC. Is it possible that > somehow the Comcast cable modem is triggering the problem? Probably not - ethernet is pretty much ethernet. > 2) Sheer age. This system, with its configuration, is about three years > old. Still, I had a good run with an older Tosh laptop and that still > seems healthy. Seems reasonable. Laptops do wear faster than desktops and servers. > 3) Static shocks. Cold weather and carpeted apartment. I grasp something > metal before sitting down to touch the computer, but still it gets jolted > occasionally. I'm skeptical this is the case, because the problem is too > localized. If I was screwing up my hard disk with shocks, I would expect > more random misbehavior. > > So what could I configure, reconfigure, reinstall, etc. to square this > away? > > Thanks in advance. > > Mitch I just had this same problem with my old thinkpad - finally traced it down to bad RAM (I hope it's the RAM and not the motherboard, at any rate). Try memtest86 on it. I left it running overnight and came back to a ton of errors. Am waiting for new RAM to arrive to make sure, but it's a place to start. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but | | steve@lobefin.net | it can point both ways. -- Isaac | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Asimov | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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