Locks up shortly after boot

**y2khardtop** · 12-28-2005, 04:32 AM

My PC boots fine, and even gets network connections with no problems, but so far, it locks up shortly after starting. Usually in about 3 minutes. Being new to Linux, I have no idea how to diagnose/log what is happening.

Any advice?

**moonrec** · 12-28-2005, 05:12 AM

Hi!

I had the same problem a couple months ago. In my case, It was working great and then it will work erratically and froze. I traced the problem to the CD rom drive, it was geting bad until it did fail completelly. I replaced the drive and works fine. Before changing the drive, try cleaning the lenses with a CD/DVD clenng disk.

Hope this helps!

Gabriel

**maxIT** · 12-29-2005, 05:57 AM

Try an older knoppix version. I've solved this issue using knoppix 3.4 in some computers.

**Harry Kuhman** · 12-29-2005, 06:06 AM

In addition to a CD drive going bad, this probem can be caused simply by a bad burn, particularly by one that was burned too fast. I would suggest trying another burn on a good quality media at a slow speed, 4x or as slow as your drive will go if it will not do 4x.