I continued having problems, even after a fresh install and everything, till one day the PC refused to boot at all (didn’t arrive to bios screen).
So I checked the motherboard and found some capacitors that were failing. I changed them and since then (one week) everything runs smoothly, no problems at all and no need for strange (nosmp) flags.
So it seems that my problem was hardware related and not a kernel problem, although I don’t understand why I had kernel panics and not just freezes.
Anyway, problem solved. Thanks everyone for their help and suggestions.
On 12/17/2012 10:56 AM, psaxioti wrote:
> I checked the motherboard and found some capacitors that were
> failing.
well good! happy you got it sorted out!!
i wonder if you looked at the motherboard because of my post (#6) which
mentioned “leaking capacitor(s)” as one of many possible causes of your
symptoms ??
On 12/17/2012 03:56 AM, psaxioti wrote:
>
> After some time, I am coming back to report.
>
> I continued having problems, even after a fresh install and everything,
> till one day the PC refused to boot at all (didn’t arrive to bios
> screen).
> So I checked the motherboard and found some capacitors that were
> failing. I changed them and since then (one week) everything runs
> smoothly, no problems at all and no need for strange (nosmp) flags.
>
> So it seems that my problem was hardware related and not a kernel
> problem, although I don’t understand why I had kernel panics and not
> just freezes.
>
> Anyway, problem solved. Thanks everyone for their help and suggestions.
Intermittent failures in motherboard circuits could cause memory errors, or even
CPU errors. The kernel is coded to provide as much information as possible when
something goes wrong, thus it will generate a panic whenever possible. That was
what you were seeing.