[LAU] random system lockups, memtest clean, no idea... Magic sysrq?

[Loki Davison]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:13 PM, R.Wolff <musicwolf at web.de> wrote:
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> Loki Davison schrieb:
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>> ahh no idea. Do bios updates happen often? I never even thought of it.
>> I guess i'll check. The board is Asus p5b, with a Q6600 quad core, a
>> nvidia 9600GT and an echo gina3g. I guess i'll have a look for other
>> reports about the board then too. I'd assumed it had to be something
>> to do with RAM or HD.
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>> Loki
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> Have you checked for a faulty or _underpowered_ PSU?
> I've seen many problems arising because of these sort of things, which
> would lead to system lockups under Windows AND Linux (although linux seems to be
> less
> prone to some hardware failures, as I had a PC once which wouldn't boot
> anymore under Win, but still worked around 6 months with a light *nix distro).
>
> Cheers and good luck,
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> Raphael ;)
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Is there anyway to check this? The power supply is supposed to be
quite a good brand and is quite big. Do the voltage levels of the
sensors tell you anything useful about that? I haven't tried swapping
it out though.

Loki