These many crashes are unusual. What are the crash symptoms? A quick reboot? A freeze? Or a shutdown?
What did you install from? A purchased boxed DVD? or a CD/DVD you downloaded and burned your self? If downloaded, what sort of md5sum checking did you do? Please be precise.
What is your graphic hardware? What graphic driver are you using?
The fact the behaviour occurs more often than with a root account doesn’t mean that much if you have a bad installation CD/DVD (because the md5sum did not match), as a bad CD/DVD can have unpredictable effects. The freeze could just be a symtom of bad permissions due to the bad CD/DVD (or some other such affect).
I used 1 of your methods you provided to extract a md5sum from my
opensuse 11 DVD i Burnt, and it turned out that the md5sum of my
DVD is the CORRECT one. so I guess md5sum is NOT the source of
my problem.
dd if=/dev/dvd | head --bytes=4602126336 | md5sum
8988544+0 records in
8988544+0 records out
ed6a5b3feb668866df812b1c2aed9d7f -
4602134528 bytes (4.6 GB) copied, 541.519 s, 8.5 MB/s
Indeed. Well done in doing the check and eliminating that possibility.
OK, my experience is a random freeze is possibly caused by:
a. bad memory,
b. bad graphic driver or bad graphic card/chipset
c. bad ethernet card/driver
You could focus your search on that. Run a memory test for 12 hours or so, … try a different graphic driver. A possible ethernet problem can be harder to track down, and I have no suggestions.
Also, take a look in your log messages under /var/log to see if you have any indications in the log messages as to what the cause of the freeze may have been (ie messages just before the freeze).
When I do Google search for
freeze “Asus G1S-A1”
I see chatter about needing BIOS update, etc, etc.
You may want to do some investigating at Asus website
or contact support.