Konqueror freezing issues

[Ryoko]

My 7 year old KDE is having problems (I know 7 years is proper relic).

Every so often all my icons vanish off the desktop and all Konqueror based activity slows to a crawl and then the whole system freezes, Browsers (Opera and Firefox) are not affected by the slowdown.

Any ideas whats causing it? I'm hoping to god the HD isn't on the way out, all fans are spinning altho one of the front ones has worn out barrings, all caps are down, everything is plugged in alright, all clean. I'm hoping it's the Ram but my bro thinks it's the AGP, I don't think it can be that can it? I mean that would account for icons vanishing but not the freezing no?.

[Just to show I am not in M$'s pocket]

What flavour of Linux? Do you have a SMART disk monitor? If the HD is on the way out that should show it up. Dying graphics card could definately account for the freezing - it could be a driver problem if the card is 7 years old and the driver has been updated? Are you running a proprietary driver? Does the manufacturer provide one? Try running a CD (or USB stick) flavour of Linux (Ubuntu is the obvious candidate) and see if you have the same problems?

Mandriva, I haven't updated anything to do with the AGP, it's just the 7676 Gforce driver.

Ok, no experience on Mandriva.

If you are running an up-to-date KDE then does it need an updated NVIDEA driver? If you have a 64bit install is that known to be stable?

Have you looked at the SMART data? If you are happy with the command line you want smartmontools, otherwise Google tells me there is a GUI front end for Mandriva: "GSmartControl is available in Mandriva Linux. You may use urpmi gsmartcontrol or rpmdrake to install it." That should give you confidence (or not) in your HD.

Mandriva support forum is probably your best bet though :)

LOL all too upto date mate, this things been the same for 6 years not a single new thing added, when this thing was built 64bit machines and duel cores where luxuries for the rich.

32bit, 3800 Athlon (I think) 2 gig of ram, two 120 WD HDs, 5800 Gforce AGP I think it is.
Not installed anything at all that should make a deference really only flash updates and browser updates and that hasn't been done for over six months as this Kernal is no longer supported.

it hasn't actually done it now for 3 days, it's rather annoying and it was on for 11 hours yesterday.

Oh, an intermittent maybe HW maybe SW, possibly driver problem? Good luck with that