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On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 11:04 pm, lee quick wrote: > Evening All,occasionally whilst listening to the odd bit of music or for > that matter playing a game i get a nasty crash sound loops like a stuck That sounds like a transmission problem. Either, as Robin says, the CPU has just hung or there's a conflict on the bus that is causing the data flow to be corrupted. Perhaps two sounds trying to be executed at the same time, perhaps two processes with the same IRQ ditto. Either way, it doesn't sound like much of a software problem. I have a laptop that has a similar problem - I get sounds that come out like a strangled cat or the sound of a car about to hit a wall. The laptop doesn't crash at the time but it will, sooner or later. Mine doesn't appear to be related to CPU load as it can crash while completely idle ( >30minutes idle). > Its very random and is a minor irritation but is annoying because i can't > recover from it and it results in a hard reset which is rather unhealthy to > say the least. Try a journalled file system - it might help reduce the filesystem corruptions, making for faster recoveries. > Just wonder where would be a good place to start investigating the cause to > try and resolve the cause. Does it happen with other distros? Have you got room to install a second/third distro like Mdk or Debian? What about using Knoppix on the system - see if that can reproduce the fault. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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