Re: PROBLEM: Random (hard) lockups

[Alan Cox]

> At random times this brand new machine locks up hard (so nothing to
> report from Sys Rq). This happens with all recent 2.4.x kernels, 2.2.17
> and 2.2.19. Some kernels seem to be worse than others as I can often work
> 
> As I'd like to make this my main machine, I am willing to put some
> time into tracking down the problem, but need pointers on where to
> begin.

Given you see the same behaviour in very stable 2.2 kernels, I'd say begin
at the hardware.