[Techtalk] Frozen computer

Elwing elwing at elwing.org
Sat Nov 6 06:15:21 EST 2004


Did you change/update any drivers/modules?

I'd go with Conor's suggestion first, but
maybe you had flaky hardware to start with and a new module/driver 
triggered the flakyness?

Laura


Lina Mårtensson wrote:
> Dear chix,
> 
> my best friend is starting to let me down. It's a 5-year-old Sony Vaio
> PCG-F390 laptop, whose memory I recently tried to upgrade. My boyfriend
> had some memory that should fit, and all was well for a few days and
> then my computer started to freeze. At first I thought it was my new
> kernel, but after that I've been running the same kernel I've run for
> months, but the computer still kept freezing. To make a long story
> short, I've changed the memory back and forth some times now, and
> somewhere in the middle I thought I'd broken stuff permanently but in
> the end it just seemed as if I hadn't put the memory in correctly.
> 
> A few hours ago, I just put back the original memory, thinking I'd just
> have a slow but at least reliable computer. But it froze again. Could I
> have caused a glitch somewhere while fiddling back and forth with the
> memory? Or is it something else that just happened to coincide with the
> change of memories? How can I find out what the problem is? I left the
> computer running with memtest86+ all night (with my boyfriend's memory),
> and it didn't report any errors, but as soon as I booted into Linux my
> computer froze again. It has only frozen when I've been using it so far,
> though, which I was obviously not while running memtest86+.
> 
> Can anyone help me?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 	/Lina
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