I know wrong forum but hey most of us are nerds.... ok not all.

Issue is ubuntu 8.4 64bit the beta ran fine, now the full version crashes with no syslog or log event at all, just random crash and I cant trace the issue.

Now saying this I am a bloody sys engineer and cant find the issue.... and have googled for ever.

Any help would be great, as need stable box to run vmware desktop 6 with a least 3 to 4 clients. (the box is strong nothing like work with duel quads and 16gig ram but close enough)

Mick no bagging me out either with "what the"

any more info on when it exactly crashes? and if you can do anything at all?

nope just crashes at random stages and no nothing can be done cant even go to console, it can run torrents all day as long as nothing else say firefox (thats not the issue trust me lol.)

the system is

AMD quad 4x 2.2

GT 8800 512mb

2Gig ddr2 duel channeled matched pair

Asus MB 570sli

Running Ubuntu 8.4 Hardy Herion and duel boot with xp 32bit (going to kill the duel boot for vmware soon as its stable)

Edited May 15, 200818 yr by race_snooze

Stab in the dark and this is 2nd hand info, have you tried disabling S.M.A.R.T for disks in setup? I know a linux freak.

bloody hell thats when it all started... great idea!!!! thank you. Syslog does have a statement about dropping sata thought it was just unmount /not in use at time issue (chatter sudo crap need to sudo and mount before its up).

Thanks will try that now cheers.

just gave the linux box a flogging and so far so good!!!! cheers will get you know if its all good

cool glad to help

no good crashed twice both straight in a row... played a full avi went for the second then bam full freeze going to contact ubuntu for the issue all good!! tried dmesg no good tried sudo apt-get update still no good very very strange, and I cant run 7.10 because it wont find the amd quad and mother board.

How high up is the nearest window?

Sorry no help i know