Problems with KDE Freezing

kvilbig · 10-08-2003, 11:11 AM

For the past two nights, I've left my system on overnight, the first night I had GAIM running, and the second night I had two Bit Torrent windows downloading some anime.

Both times, when I wake up in the morning, the system is completely frozen. It seems to take no input and I have to reset, which I really don't like doing.

I'll be around answering any questions about specifics and performing experiments if needs be.

Thanks in advance.

tangle · 10-08-2003, 11:18 AM

Does it only do it when you use this GAIM or does it do it when you leave it on all night?

kvilbig · 10-08-2003, 11:28 AM

It's when I leave it on all night, last night I was only running the 2 bit torrent downloads.

BTW: I'm willing to use a different window manager if KDE is the problem. I might go that direction anyways just to have less overhead.

tangle · 10-08-2003, 11:58 AM

You might want to look at the hardware. It sounds to me like ot could be a power supply, CPU, memory or even a heat problem.

kvilbig · 10-08-2003, 12:21 PM

The problem is, it never froze under windows like this... although I do have some other odd issues with my hardware... Even though I have 266 MHz DDR Ram, 1.33 GHz CPU and a 133MHz FSB on my motherboard... I can only run at 100MHz FSB speed for some reason, limiting me to 1Ghz, instead of 1.33

Me being the tech weenie I am, have no idea why it could be doing this. My EE roommate has no idea either, but he hasn't really looked into the problem in a hardcore manner.

tangle · 10-08-2003, 12:34 PM

I could also be that a power management app is causing this too. Like it might try to hybernate or something and just lock up.

kvilbig · 10-08-2003, 12:38 PM

I just checked and I don't even have APM or ACPI compiled into my kernel...

kvilbig · 10-15-2003, 07:22 PM

Back to this, could it have been GAIM? My system froze again last night and I was running GAIM...