mandrake 9.2 crashes
hello people,
Ive been running mandrake for quite a while now (about 5 months) on an 2 hdd machine with winxp on the other hdd. Recently I have just installed mandrake 9.2 formatting all linux partitions (except 1 partition that had my documents on it). the installation went fine.
I then compiled the nforce drivers and nvidia drivers for it. The system seemed to be working fine for the next few days.
I've not been back onto linux for about a month and needed to burn some things from my linux partition. I booted up linux and started kde which froze. I tried ctrl+alt+backspace and ctrl+alt+del which didnt work so i ended up restarting the machine manually.
I tried to boot into linux again but the machine crashed while checking the partitions after my manual restart. I noticed that the hdd led was constantly running although no sound of activity was occurring. so i waited for about 10 Min with no change in state and tried to restart again and ended up doing this manually as well.
Finally i managed to get into linux and started kde. everything seemed to work. however, while a was burning my disk the system seemed to freeze again and the burning light on my writer stopped. I noticed the same hdd led was constantly running with no sound of activity occuring. With no other choice i had to restart again.
I decided to copy my files over to a fat32 partition I have on the same drive to burn under XP. again the system crashed with the hdd led constantly running and no sound of activity occuring while copying the files. i then restarted a number of times due to the same freeze above while linux boots and was checking the partitions but finally i managed to get into kde again. I copied my files without any problem although I was constantly shuffling my mouse around to notice any crash.
I then tried to copy some more files after a few days but the same crashes occured.
does anyone know the cause of the crashes/freezes-my fat32 partition on the same drive seems to be working without any problems under winxp. any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance for the help,
Justjoe770
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