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Re: [LUG] Unrecoverable Crash



On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 10:32, Robin Cornelius wrote:
>
> For totaly random crashes never underestimate the power of a "hot
> processor". My system can overheat at times due to a poor CPU fan and this
> can cause random crashes and worse when compiling it can cause garbage to
> enter binaries causing untraceable errors! Do the problems occur
> during/after heavy cpu load? you mentioned games (good chance yes then) and
> media play back (potential heavy cpu user).
>

If you have a modern graphics card you should also check that it's fan it 
running. I've had many solid lockups due to this in the past, especially when 
running games.

David.


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