Continueing BlackScreen/Freeze

[Scot L. Harris]

On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 20:51, Ragone_Andrew wrote:
> I have just installed Mandrake over the Fedora Core 2 distro that I
> had intended to install. Installation went fine but I figureed I would
> try this distro as FC2 kept randomly freezing and giving me blank
> screens (not sending data to the monitor so that it goes into a sleep
> mode).
> 
> I booted up Mandrake today and it froze so I restarted as FC2 once 

What size power supply do you have?  With that many drives you might be
exceeding the power supply specs.  

It could also be a heat problem.  Since it happens in two different
version of Linux it sounds like it is not an OS problem.  

Run memtest to check your memory and make sure you have sufficient
cooling.  

I had a system that would occasionally hang.  Had pretty much ruled
everything out except heat as a problem.  Added several fans to the
system as well as new heat sink.  Finally replaced the mother board and
it has not hung since.

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