On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:31:52PM +0300, Jarkko Hermanni Teppo wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> I have a really weird problem here:
> A pentium 75 (64MB) + Adaptec 1542CF (? short card w/ floppy controller)
> + a couple of 1 GB drives (HP, Seagate).
> 
> The machine works fine normally, but when starting something
> memory intensive (eg. something else than bash) like kernel
> compilations + X + something else (and still staying below 64MB) the
> machine just hangs solid. This happens after some disk activity and
> after that the disk active leds are all on and the machine is locked.
> Entering ddb doesn\'t work either, so it\'s always hard reset time.

Just an idea which may be completely wrong: did you check the fans ?

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