...moved from another thread...

yes you are probably right, I imagine it could be that my sata drive could be a hardware issue that arises 2 weeks after installing. or maybe the HT technology could be it. and being only a month long user it must obviosly be easier to find a better distribution that toss my drive or cpu or whatever else the problem is and start over.

remember I am not the guru you are and I dont even know how to determine just what hardware problem is the issue since it does not happen ever 20 hrs but every 2 weeks.

I will say I was very happy with mandrake until it crashed the 2nd time. well I would have been a whole lot happier with sound. If you are willing to help me determine whats wrong I am more than willing to try any advise you have.

A short rundown of my hardware is as follows:

CPU: intel p4-3.0eHT 1M L2-cache, 800MHz FSB (the kernel detects it as 2 p4-3.04 cpu's, I imagine that is the HT in action but not sure, the only difference i can see between them in the control center is the bogomips)
Motherboard: MSI 865PE Neo2
Harddrive: Seagate SP8012c SATA - 80G running as the 3rd Master
CD: Sony running as the 1st Master
Video: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 64Mb
Sound: Intel 82801EB AC'97 Audio (onboard)
LAN: Intel \x{200E}82801EB (ICH5) PRO/100 VE (onboard)
it appears all the controllers left to describe run off the southbridge, Intel 82801EB (ICH5)

I tried to make this as complete as possible if you need anymore info please just ask

As for the sound problems:
Which application have you tried?
Are you running KDE?
Have you unmuted the varoius mixer entries?
Have you searched this forum for the other sound-related questions (there are many)?

- Peder

KDE yes.

Unmute: I am not sure where to find any mutes, the Kmix does not show anything muted
the little speaker icon next to the clock show no mute. The speaker also has a big red X over it.

Applications: Ive tried playing audio cd's, movie clips with totem, test sound in the config tools.

Searched for sound issues? No, i put that priority far below the crashing problem.

I just wanted to take the time to thank everyone for such wonderful help here. I got all of 1 reply in over a week and it was off subject. It really makes me glad I signed up and that there is help out there when you really need it.

Is it just me or do I sense a bit of sourness in your comment?

Remember this is a forum of volunteers that cost you nothing to sign up for.
If you really need help why not fork of a couple of dollars/pounds/yen/whatever and pay Mandrake
for some support (since I guess you haven't bought the MDK CD's which would've enabled you
three months free/prepaid support).

As for being off subject: You mentioned you would've been happier with sound and I tried to help
the way I could.

And those every once a week errors are really hard to find the culprit to.

The only thing I've read about loosing filesystems and HT was this guy (http://software.newsforge.com/articl...69208&from=rss)
who saw problems when he started using a SMP kernel.
If you're running one of those perhaps you could try a single cpu kernel instead.

- Peder