From: Marcus Lindemann (mlishebang.de)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2005 - 15:40:33 CST

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Hi,
I had also a randomly freezing PC some time ago. In my case it was
caused by an aging hard disk.
BR
Marcus
Josh Black wrote:

>Hi -
>
>I'm using a generic PC running 3.6 as my firewall. Everything was
>working wonderfully until about 3 weeks ago when it started randomly
>locking up. The entire machine freezes. It doesn't respond to pings,
>the console keyboard doesn't work, nothing. The only thing I can do is
>cycle the power.
>
>So far I've tried swapping out the NICs, the keyboard, even the entire
>PC itself for another spare one I have that runs 3.6 as well. Nothing
>makes a difference.
>
>I have been searching and searching trying to figure out why it's doing
>this, but I can't find any answers. I checked /var/log/messages and
>there are no error messages there. The screen doesn't show a kernel
>panic or anything like that. I'm not even sure where I need to be
>looking. Any ideas at all would be helpful at this point. Thanks!
>
>
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