SGI: Discussion

I have a dual 360 octane with dual SE cards, Xbow 1.4 and 512MB RAM (can't really post a hinv at the moment, the system is sitting at my desk at work but I can provide whatever info might be helpful). It seems to freeze randomly - there is nothing in the logs, and console is also dead. One time recently the screen froze with everything on screen looking normal - but moving the mouse, hitting the keyboard buttons did nothing - looked like a screenshot of my desktop frozen on the monitor! Other times the system is in screensaver mode and it just never "wakes up"

any ideas?

Perhaps it's overheating?

Disassemble it and clean the ventilation slots on the top, back, and near the middle of the machine (the latter are accessible once you've removed the motherboard and the graphics cards). You can also check if all the fans are running properly.

Does it respond to pings? If so, telnet in and try to identify (and kill) the offending process.

this can also mean that the graphics are freezing/crashing.

Mine likes to do that if another computer on the network goes down.

i got almost the same but actually it was the kbd and mouse that stopped working hehe good thing i always open a console, so it will pop up some message there about it

I took the gfx carrier out and there was alot of dust in there. I blew it out with compressed air and it seems to not be crashing anymore so it might have a over heating issue. Thanks!