Frequent Hangs & beeps on restart

shadyabhi · 2011-03-04 18:51:30

My laptop has ATi Radeon HD 4500 series. I have xf86-video-ati installed.

The laptop hangs frequently, by freeze I mean Everything hangs. I cant boot switch to console using Ctrl+Alt+F{1..6}.
After I do a hard reset, I get beeps 2-3-4-3 which means "Display non-disposable segments" for my Phoenix motherboard.

There are times when I dont get a freezed system but I get kernel panic like this -> http://i.imgur.com/OKZdx.jpg
Sometimes, it also happens that I get the above screen at startup too.

I have tried searching google but I couldnt do anything much with that beep-code. (I am also not able to understand what that actually means).

I also had catalyst-hook installed earlier, in that also I had the same issue of hangs but I never got kernel panic.

Summary:

With xf86-video-ati: Kernel panic + frequent hangs + 2-3-4-3 beeps on startup.
With catalyst-hook: frequent hangs + 2-3-4-3 beeps on startup.

Inxsible · 2011-03-04 19:02:11

The best place to start, when debugging problems is the logs

shadyabhi · 2011-03-04 19:33:58

Inxsible wrote:

The best place to start, when debugging problems is the logs

Which logs do I need to post? Actually, the problem is that its not my laptop and errors might be hidden into populated logs.. So, how should I proceed?

lagagnon · 2011-03-04 20:53:34

Beep codes mean you have a hardware fault - nothing to do with the OS. Those beep codes and kernel panics to me suggest faulty RAM. You can run memtest from the Arch CD or any other Live Linux CD or the UltimateBootCD to test your RAM - but I suspect that is your problem.

shadyabhi · 2011-03-07 11:37:26

lagagnon wrote:

Beep codes mean you have a hardware fault - nothing to do with the OS. Those beep codes and kernel panics to me suggest faulty RAM. You can run memtest from the Arch CD or any other Live Linux CD or the UltimateBootCD to test your RAM - but I suspect that is your problem.

Windows7 runs on the same laptop without any issues so its sure to be some problem with faulty device drivers..

webofunni · 2011-03-07 12:02:40

Hey,

Do you have another kernel in the system that you can boot, if so try that.

lagagnon · 2011-03-07 14:59:46

shadyabhi wrote:

Windows7 runs on the same laptop without any issues so its sure to be some problem with faulty device drivers..

Are you dual booting Windows7 right now on that laptop without beep codes?

shadyabhi · 2011-03-07 15:17:01

lagagnon wrote:

Are you dual booting Windows7 right now on that laptop without beep codes?

Yes. Its a dual-boot (Windows 7 32-bit + ArchLinux 64-bit).
Windows7 32-bit runs perfectly without any beep codes on that laptop.

Arch Linux

#1 2011-03-04 18:51:30

Frequent Hangs & beeps on restart

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