OpenSUSE 11.1 freezing - Page 2

nickelarse · #11 (**permalink**) 09-Oct-2009, 17:35

Well, after weeks of tearing my hair out, I finally decided the only thing I could do was flash the BIOS on the motherboard - an ABIT KN9S. I was reluctant to do this as I've killed mobos before by doing this, but as the PC wasn't really running well, I didn't have much to lose.

OpenSuSE reinstalled flawlessly, and updated without crashing (a first for me), and has been running for over a week since without any glitches at all. The revision history for the BIOS had the comment "improved compatibility with Linux". Strange that older versions of Linux ran fine, though.

So I'm happy, at last! Except for now I can't get Flash to work, even though I've had no trouble before. Time to search the forums...

caf4926 · #12 (**permalink**) 09-Oct-2009, 22:09

Thanks for posting your solution.

nickelarse · #13 (**permalink**) 20-Oct-2009, 07:05

Well, I take all that back. After running completely flawlessly for 11 days, the computer has frozen up completely on my twice in two hours, just as before. Kernel panic. Wasn't doing much out of the ordinary.

Guess I'm back to square one. I've disabled all the 3D effects just in case that's causing it. Maybe the CMOS battery is flat and CMOS is getting corrupt? No idea whether this would cause these symptoms though.

Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhh. I'm beginning to think that getting a high end system to run Linux stably is impossible. I'm on the verge of just buying a new computer, but will undoubtedly have more issues if I do.

Nick

lwfinger · #14 (**permalink**) 20-Oct-2009, 08:53

On 10/20/2009 07:06 AM, nickelarse wrote:

> Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhh. I'm beginning to think that getting a high
> end system to run Linux stably is impossible.

Nonsense! Your symptoms have all the symptoms of intermittent memory
failures. Have you run memtest+ for at least 24 hours?

nickelarse · #15 (**permalink**) 20-Oct-2009, 13:30

Yep, ran it for four days. No failures.

lwfinger · #16 (**permalink**) 20-Oct-2009, 15:07

On 10/20/2009 01:36 PM, nickelarse wrote:
>
> Yep, ran it for four days. No failures.

That should be sufficient. Have you also tried reseating the circuit
boards?

nickelarse · #17 (**permalink**) 21-Oct-2009, 12:28

I have, but maybe I'll try again.
Away for a few weeks now, so won't reply very quickly...

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