System kind of falls asleep.

marxav · 2006-12-20 22:52:13

I have an IMB Netvista P4 that after a while kind of stop answering. Situation appears:
whether I run X or not,
whether computer is "sitting" doing nothing (0 load) or 100% (Folding@home)

Symptoms:
cursor stops blinking
top stops find of freeze
ls works
backspace(on an empty line) start annoying continuous bell as opposed to a single bip.

Any clue anyone ?

noriko · 2006-12-21 12:09:24

sounds like hardware failure, imminent, ( as suggestive of all prolonged beeps of the pcspeaker ) ..
u might consider checking it out...

marxav · 2006-12-21 23:00:10

Huummm It has been behaving like so for quite some time (couple months). Not sure what it is I should check. Yesterday, it froze again. I rebooted and it froze again after only 20 min. Another reboot and now it has been of for over 26 hours. I am puzzled.

noriko · 2006-12-22 07:34:11

unfortunately i suck at this, and no-one else has replied yet ...
all i can point u towards is the log files.. /var/log

errors.log , at least on my system is the one that shows hw issues ...
it's quite an interesting scan for me lol ..
check this fi.e [>Nov 14 01:19:10 athlin ERROR: (device hda9): stack overrun in dtSearch!<] ; dunno what it means, but i don't really care lol .. it's a fat32 part. which i formatted a long time ago, i think it had to do with that time windows crashed during partition shifting, and somehow managed to lock several partitions together x( lol

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#1 2006-12-20 22:52:13

System kind of falls asleep.

#2 2006-12-21 12:09:24

Re: System kind of falls asleep.

#3 2006-12-21 23:00:10

Re: System kind of falls asleep.

#4 2006-12-22 07:34:11

Re: System kind of falls asleep.

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