On Tuesday 24 February 2015 18:56:23 Sharon Kimble wrote: > Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> I have just bought a new computer,a Lenovo 050 desktop. Its working > > > > I couldn't find an 050 model. Did you mean H50? > > Nope, its a Lenovo 050 Desktop from ebuyer. > > >> reasonably okay except for the occasional crashes. For instance, I've > >> had it a fortnight now and its longest uptime has been just over 3 > >> days, even though its on all the time! > > > > What OS did it come with Windows 7 or 8? Did the machine crash when > > running Windows? If yes, you could have a hardware problem. If no, > > then it's probably a Linux problem. > > 8.1, which was very soon removed to install wheezy to upgrade to > jessie. > > > You seemed to have installed Jessie 32-bit based on your other posting > > -- "installed watchedog" . . . i386. > > > > What version of Jessie? It's at RC1 as of 25 Jan. > > It was installed on 10th February, a netinstall of wheezy. Then > upgraded to jessie on the same day. > > > Dual boot or did you wipe out Windows? > > > > GNOME3 desktop? > > Fluxbox, I went into gnome once whilst I installed fluxbox, and > there I remain. > > > Here's what I'd do. Start over from zero. You could have a corrupted > > install. Wipe out your current Jessie. Download and install the most > > current 64-bit version. Do a checksum on the download itself and the CD > > or DVD after burning. Depending on your Internet connection, a > > netinstall CD will get you an up-to-date system when the > > install is completed. > > Everything is working okay, that crashing was the only problem, so > thanks, but I'm staying with it as it is. The setup was missing > "watchdog" which is now installed. But it is a good idea to get a > new 64-bit version, my install disk was burnt on 28 May 2013 so it > does need to be replaced. > > >> It has crashed when I've been using it, and its crashed overnight > >> whilst I've been asleep! There does not seem to be any pattern to > >> it, or any noticeable trigger. > >> > >> When it crashes, the screen freezes, and both the usb keyboard and > >> mouse freeze, and can not be used. > > > > Sounds like a kernel crash. Does the screen go black (or another > > color) like the computer was turned off, or does the desktop image > > remain? > > When it crashed *everything* just froze, the keyboard, the desktop, > the monitor, time stood still! > Did you, by any chance, install a 3.19-trunk Kernel? That one crashes on my desktop too while 3.18 works flawlessly.
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