[LBo] Help troubleshooting computer lockup problem

[Lonnie Mullenix]

Hi Sam,

Had the same issue with an nVidea card a year or so back.  Close as I
could tell, it was simply that the cards headed south on me.

Course, I live in a fairly dusty house, so occasionally, I will have to
take the box outside and take the air compressor to it.   Blow out all
the dust, etc, and then it will work for another 8-12 months.

And, if you have a dust problem, like W. Texas blowing through the
windows, the fan on the video card my not be running up to par.

Later my friend,

Lonnie


On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 06:04 -0500, Sam Morgan wrote:
> The computer is a 1.3 ghz AMD with 3 sticks of 133mhz. 512 mb ram I have MS 
> Vista installed on it, which runs fine with no lockups.
> 
> I ha been trying to install Kubuntu on it and running it is where the problem 
> showed. It runs fine from the live cd, no lockups. But installed (from the 
> install cd not the live cd) it will freeze after maybe 5-10 min of operation.
> No particular program is running when the freeze happens.
> 
> When I say locking up, I mean the mouse freezes, the keyboard becomes 
> unresponsive, nothing works, but the on off switch on the computer.
> 
> In the #LBo chat Sunday someone mentioned it might be a bad stick of ram, so I 
> ran memtest on all 3 sticks of ram (individually). One stick would show about 
> one error for every hour of the testing run. So I replaced it with a stick of 
> 133mhz 128mb (oh how the mighty have fallen, hehehe)
> That didn't fix the problem.
> 
> I reinstalled and this time I used Xubuntu. All seemed fine, til maybe 30 min 
> into the run when it did the same thing. I'd say it was an overheating/video 
> card problem, but then why does it not happen when running Vista. I do plan to 
> swap out the video card some time in the next few days, but I'm not sure that 
> will fix it.
> 
> So any suggestions from the group as to my next steps troubleshooting this weird 
> problem? No I haven't ask on any of the #*buntu channels nor have I browsed 
> their wiki, (yet).
> 
> TIA
> -- 
> God Bless,
> Sam Morgan
> 
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