Hello

Well i was watching an avi with "gmplayer zeropoint.avi" from a
terminal. About 30 minutes into it, it started freezing and then catching
up, so i quit a few other programs i had running. Everything was fine
again for about another 30 minutes, and then a hard crash, wasn't able to
kill X (ctrl alt bkspace), no ctrl-alt-del nothing, was forced to hit the
reset button. When my computer crashed, the top half of my 19" monitor
was black, the bottom half was the X "herring-bone" pattern.
After I rebooted, my computer would hang during hotplug. I shutdown
and restarted with "Slack2.4.26 -nohotplug" from lilo. (thats a
recompiled 2.4.26 that has been working fine since end of June begining
of July) and i booted sucessfully. When i tried to startx black screen
and hard lock, had to use reset button again. I rebooted again (with no
hotplug) and checked /var/log/messages and around the time of the first
crash there is a whole bunch of garbage like @'s with a block background
and other misc crap. I looked at all of the other logs in /var/log and
see nothing to diagnose what the problem may be. I;ve seen this garbage
in /var/log/messages before, but it was never a problem. I just
remembered I didn't check dmessage :/
Another thing to mention is that I've also had trouble with slack
hanging at hotplug, but usually 1 or 2 reboots and or giving it enough
time i usually get a sucessful boot. I went to bad at 2:30am and gave
hotplug untill i got up at 10:00am. I'm at a loss at what to do now. I'm
posting this from windows :/

SysSpecs;
Slackware 10 with all patches (save vim)
kernel 2.4.26 recompiled with pretty much only correct arch and "special
command" for my onboard promise controller
AMD XP2800+
MSI KT3 ULTRA ARU
GeForce 4 TI4600 (nvidia drivers can't remember version off hand, latest
at time of install around end of June)
SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS (using alsa)

My system has been slack stable up untill this point. Please let me know
any other info you bozos need

PS about 2 mos ago i had a dieing drive, and tested my memory extensively
and both 512 sticks passed and are 100% and I have a PC Power and Cooling
420 watt PSU