On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:00 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
On 9/26/07, David Hough <fedora(a)llondel.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to work out what's wrong with one of my Fedora 7 systems. It
> suffers random seizures, sometimes completely locking up, other times
> apparently suffering partial lock-ups of one or two windows (as in they
> won't update the screen when clicked but others still work), followed
> shortly by a complete lock-up. Sometimes when locked up I can still ping
> it, although attempting ssh gets in but never provides a prompt (but see
> below). On reboot there's no clue in the syslog. The previous FC6
> installation was rock-solid. Running a Xen kernel or VMWare (not on a
> Xen kernel) seems to guarantee a crash much faster than if I don't run
> either.
>
> Initial thoughts were about the Evil nVidia Binary Driver, but I swapped
> the graphics card for an ATI one and I still get lock-ups, so
> uninstalling the nVidia driver didn't fix it. I've left it running
> memtest overnight and it was quite happy.
>
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>
Choose VESA and test again.
It just died with the VESA driver as well. I'm guessing it's a hardware
issue but short of replacing the motherboard/CPU, I'm running out of
ideas.