OGL (was Re: Random total lockups)

[James Wilkinson]

Cyrus Adkisson wrote:
> This thread ended quite a while ago, but I FINALLY figured out what was 
> causing my "random total lockups" and share with the world so that 
> someone else may be able to avoid the months of agony I went through.
> 
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> 
> Out of sheer dumb luck, my landlord kicked me out of my apartment and I 
> had to find a new place to live. When I moved into my new apartment, my 
> CRT monitor jiggled due to an unusually strong magnetic field, so I had 
> to scrap it and get an LCD which has no vaccum tube to be affected by 
> the magnetic field.
> 
> Lo and behold, I haven't had a lockup since.  That was 60 days ago. I'd 
> never gone more than 11 days without a lockup before. I did have lockups 
> in the new apartment before the LCD came, so I know it wasn't the power 
> (using UPS's anyway) or some other factor in the move. My conclusion is 
> that one of two things was happening:
> 
> a) The monitor was sending some sort of voltage feedback back into the 
> motherboard, causing the machine to lock (unlikely), OR
> b) The module/code controlling the Samsung 955df CRT monitor was flawed 
> (much more likely, I'd say). Once I plugged in the LCD and configured X 
> to handle a "generic LCD" rather than the Samsung, I stopped having lockups.

c) You were on a dodgy power connection. Since you changed monitor and
power connection at the same time, we can't tell whether the system
might have been stable without the extra power load of the monitor.

Dodgy power will let computers work ...  most of the time.

> Hope this helps somebody else in the future.

Likewise.

James.

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