Re: [ILUG] box freezing, where can I fsck the root cause?

From: Dave Airlie (airlied at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Tue 09 Oct 2001 - 14:53:04 IST

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>
> I'd say it's almost certainly either a hardware problem or a software
> problem.

and if it's no one of these you can get your money back :-)...

Try getting a reproducible fail, and see if anyone else gets
> it. If not, then start disabling drivers/removing pieces of kit until it
> doesn't break any more, and either stop using the driver that breaks
> stuff, or stop using the peiece of kit, or replace them with stuff that
> doesn't break.
>
> Dave.
>
>

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