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Computer lock up

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momo

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I have having a little trouble and I am hoping that someone can shed some light on the problem/solution. I am running redhat 7.3.
I just installed a new motherboard ( abit kr7a-raid ) and a Athlon XP 1800+ ...have 256 mb DDR and my computer locks up completely when I try to "unshn" ( unshn is the linux version of MKW ) a file. unshn uses shorten and is used to convert .shn files to .wav files. I never had this problem w/ my kt7a w/ 1.13 T-Bird. It locks up everytime now. I had "top" running and it seems as though the lockup may be occuring because of CPU usage going way up.. No messages come up, that I can see, except for a segmentation fault. Any ideas why my CPU is crapping out?
I don't have a windows box to test if this happens w/ windows so I am not sure if it is a true "linux" problem. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

TIA

Mike
 
Anybody? I have a 300 watt power supply does anyone think that might be the cause....but why does it seem like the processor is being all used up? Just looking for some ideas.

Mike
 
Update: It "seems" that it may have been a heat issue. I cleaned up the processor and heatsink and applied some new thermal compound and now I seem to be stable..... We will see what happens.

Mike
 
You may have found the problem right off. That kind of problem is often caused by a heat spike as CPU cycles are maxed out.
 
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