[64studio-devel] Going crazy: div. apps exiting without preventing me - loosing my work

[R.Wolff]

Lee Revell schrieb:

> 
> It really does sound like buggy hardware if Windows freezes too.  In
> my experience XP is rock solid on good hardware provided you stick
> with the drivers from Microsoft.
> 
> Do you have any 3rd party proprietary drivers installed?
> 
> Lee
> 
Sure, I have installed my graphics drivers from Matrox, my M-Audio 
drivers for my Delta 1010LT and a driver for the Onboard ATA chip under 
Windows. And this same system has been rock solid for more than 3 years.

Under Linux I don't have any 3rd party drivers installed.

Just a little bit before the problems began, I had a very bad power 
failure. Maybe the mobo has taken damage at this time? Problem is, I 
don't really have the funds ATM to test diff. hardware exchanges. And if 
I want to stick with my current CPU & RAM,  the choices of available 
mainboards aren't that big anymore here in Germany. For the socket A 
variant of mobos, all you find here now are ASRock boards. None of them 
comes with a onboard ATA controller, one of these have SATA, but I don't 
know how well the PATA->SATA adapters work. And what if it's not the 
mobo?Then I would have spent money for nothing. It's a tough situation 
for the moment being.
And I have learnt the hard way to stick with proven/brand7quality 
hardware, so I'm not gonna buy some piece of cheap junk gear just to buy 
anything.
I'll see what I can do.

Raphael ;)