Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark.Shaw@cadus ... | Subject | RE: Freezing, black screen, lock up of computer | Date | Thu, 28 May 1998 08:53:28 -0400 |
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I also used to have the "Black screen of Death". I also replaced my 3Com905 cards with Netgear FA 310Tx's. I also can now say, "Life is good"
-Mark
-----Original Message----- From: Jorg B. [mailto:jorg_b@cwo.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 11:14 PM To: Fabricio Chalub Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu; linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Freezing, black screen, lock up of computer
This "Black screen of Death" crash seems to be one of these things that nobody really seem to be able to fix, yet. Let me guess, you are using a 3com 905 card and or an Adaptec card/chip. We had this happen with 2.0.33 since day one... One thing to do is to upgrade to the latest Drivers for both the scsi adapter and the ethernet card. We had no more problems as soon as we got rid of the 3com 905 ethernet card. I replace this card with a Netgear FA 310Tx, which works great...
Hope that helps a bit...
JB
At 08:59 PM 5/27/98 -0300, you wrote: >Hi! > >On *very* random intervals my apache web server running linux-2.0.33 SMP >with some of the "secure-linux" patches freezes, the screen remains black, >no keyboard, nothing, only a hard reset will bring the system back to life. > >Three points: > >--> The logs don't show *any* "oops" or anything that could hint us what is >the offending piece of software/hardware... > >--> and I said random because the computer ran for 8 days without any >problems. Before that it ran for 5 days. I think 'tis something to do with >SMP, since we own an Asus dual Pentium II. > >--> The ONLY thing that was abnormal was that when I asked a process listing >(a normal ps xa dump), the process (kswapd) showed an absurd running time >(something like 239873423 hours, whilst the system was up for only 7 days). >That's weird :) > >Did you guys have any similar experience? I'm downgrading to UP, though :( > >[ ]s fabricio > >ps.: My hardware is really normal: 128 M of memory, IDE hd, NE2000 >compatible ethernet, etc. I find it very surprising a stable kernel locking >up like this... I'm looking forward for 2.0.34 ! ;) >
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