[CLUE-Talk] getting stuck and fixing it.

[Brandon N]

if you have another machine on your network, try to both telnet and
ping.  A long time ago I had a problem with a system apparently
freezing, it turned out that static electricity was shocking the
keyboard and mouse ports.  

Brandon
--- "celttechie (Brian Jarrett)" <celttechie at yahoo.com> wrote:
> <quote Steve>
> > Hi everyone,
> >     I haven't been too active on this group for a while, mostly
> lurking
> due
> > to the fact I've been waiting for my new 1gig T-Bird system. Now
> I've got
> it
> > and I'm trying to get set up with Linux. I'm going with Corel since
> it's
> > mostly a home based machine and I want to network with my wife's
> Win98 PC.
> > Anyway that's another email, my question has to deal with the fact
> that I
> > have installed Corel without a problem but for some strange reason
> my
> > machine would lock up when I go to do something. Even something
> simple as
> > changing themes. My question is how do I safely unlock my PC
> without
> > destroying Linux? The only thing I could do is just hit the reset
> button,
> (I
> > know that's probably not what I should do thus the question.), and
> then it
> > reboots and apparently wants me to run something like scandisk but
> to be
> > perfectly hones, I have no clue! At that point I can't even get
> Linux to
> > boot, it just sits on an error message and a prompt.
> </quote>
> 
> If I remember right, Corel is more GUI based than some distros.  On
> other
> distros such as Mandrake and Redhat, I usually have my machine come
> up in a
> console rather than X Windows.  I say this because I've had a similar
> problem where my machine would only lock when I was in X Windows and
> I would
> hit CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to kill X.  Then I would end up back in the
> console
> where I could start X again or do something else.  You might want to
> give it
> a try.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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