Fedora 4 hangs repeatedly on my AMD Athlon 64

ryanding_at_hotmail.com
Date: 11/05/05

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    Date: 4 Nov 2005 21:42:55 -0800

    After a long struggle, I finally got the 64 bit Fedora 4 installed (I
    had to work around a but with GRUB and manually set the monitor
    Horizontal/Vertical frequency for X to display). Now comes an even
    bigger problem. After I use the X window for a few minutes (doesn't
    seem to matter what I do), the entire machine hangs. The display is
    there. Mouse moves. But it does not respond to either keyboard or mouse
    click. The only thing that I can do is to power the machine down by
    press the power button for a few seconds. This happens consistently. A
    few things about the set up:

    Downloaded and burned 5 CD from redhat.com for the 64 bit Fedora 4.
    The machine is 64 bit AMD athlon with 768 MB RAM. The video card is
    "SiS 760".
    I have Windows XP and Fedora 4 dural booted through GRUB.

    I tried a "yum update" two days ago and noticed the machine hanging
    problem. I though it was caused by a glich during the update (The
    update hung and machine was rebooted. Resuming update reported some
    file inconsistency. I had to remove the faulty package to complete the
    update). So today I reinstalled Fedora 4 from scrach. Still the same
    hanging problem. I doubt an update would solve this problem. I'll give
    it a try anyway tomorrow. Besides updating, what else that I can do.
    What are the steps to take to trouble shoot this kind of problem?

    Thanks,

    ----Ryan

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