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Justine Humphry wrote:
> 
> Well, thanks everybody for all the constructive responses to my linux problem
> 
> The problem has been solved as mysteriously as it occurred. The hanging I
> was experiencing approx 10mins after startup seems to have disappeared.
> Recall that I mentioned that in attempting to identify the problem I
> installed a BARE kernel on a BARE machine - that is, I removed all extra
> goodies like serial cards, ethernet cards etc. Well I was experiencing the
> problem even after that but having left it for about 2 weeks in total
> frustration, I returned armed with all the positive suggestions people
> offered (including freon freezing fluid in my bag - prepared to spray all
> chips to discover a buggy one). Anyway, I booted up my computer and it's
> been fine since - 4 days so far.
> 
> I'm monitoring for any slight indication that the problem will return -
> what frustrates me most is that I still don't know what it was but well,
> it's gone...
> 
> Thanks everybody - I think the amazing feedback must of terrified the
> problem away.
> 
> Cheers Justine
	According to the Bureau OF Meteorology and many prominent Astronomers,
the past couple of weeks has seen an unusual amount of solar activity. 
Over the past fortnight there has been a record number of solar flares
and sun spots that have caused a high level of ionisation of the solar
wind.  The solar wind is a flow of charged particles that emanates from
the sun and flows through out the galaxy 
so inevitably the earth is always passing through the wind.  If the wind
is ionised to a certain extent then it can cause serious problems with
electrical equipment.

	You may have noticed that TV reception has been of lower quality in the
past few weeks, this is also an effect of the wind.  The problem with
many computers is that the frequencies that they run on is a sub
multiple of the frequency that the ionised wind oscillates at.  The
possibility arises that if you computer was operating at a time when
there was a surge in the ionisation at the time of your compile, it
could have caused an over load situation to occur and over charge the
bypass capacitors on your mother board.

	When you got totally frustrated with the system crashing and left it
alone for a while, turned off, the capacitors had a chance to discharge
to below normal voltage and allowed normal operation .  To prevent this
happening in the future, make sure that you only operate the pc in the
dark and have a ceiling fan running to reduce the amount of inter
modulation from the solar wind.

	Regards,

		Simon.

P.S. At least it's a reason for you problems ;-).



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