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On Wednesday 29 September 2004 10:40 am, Tejus Parikh wrote:
> I had a similar problem that resulted from the NVIDIA graphics driver
> not cooperating nicely with local APIC.  You can disable it in the
> kernel config, under processor options.  Once I did that, my uptime
> under linux went from a few minutes - a few hours to more than three
> months.
>
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:37, David Corbin wrote:
> > I have Dell Dimesnion 4600 that dual boots as WIndows XP and Gentoo Linux
> > (desktop), running Kernel 2.6.7.  It seems to suffer "random lockups",
> > most often during the 'startup process".  The system is entirely frozen
> > an unresponsive -- no mouse, not keyboard input.  no switching virtual
> > screens. And the disk-activity light is 'on solid'.  OTOH, usually  if I
> > can get booted, I can run for hours, or a day without any problems. 
> > Unfortunately, it runs pretty well under WIndows, considering the OS. 
> > FWIW, the two OSes are on different physical drives.
> >
> > I'm looking for suggestions on how to diagnose the root cause.
> >
> > Thanks
> > David
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