Luis Sousa wrote:
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> I've been having consistent hard system freezes for a
> long time, every 2 days or so, and finally decided to
> move to the most recent stable kernel. Unfortunatelly
> that didn't fix it. The freezes seem to be io-related;
> they started since I moved my drive to sata. They seem
> to happen mostly when there's an io-intensive operation,
> like extracting a big archive; a reboot is needed.

We need more info, namely full 'dmesg', 'lspci -v', and your kernel config.

Also, make /sure/ you are not running closed-source modules known to 
crash the system, like ndiswrapper or nvidia graphics driver.

	Jeff



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