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Seif Attar wrote: > Hello, > I bought the system in october, so quite cheap from ebay, it's one of > those home built machines, so think cheapest parts possible! :) > > it's a core2quad with 2 gigs of ram, nvidia 8800gt. The symptoms have > changed since it first started. before it used to freeze, no mouse > moving, no keyboard, sysrq doesnt work, but display showing last app > running on X, and nothing in the logs,then I noticed that if I have some > apps open when the crash happens (e.g. mythtv) i do get something in the > logs, see attached file with different data from different days, logs > dont always get written to, these messages keep repeating in the logs. > > I don't know if any1 can make anything of those things. but the freezes > are completely random! they happen while i am working on the machine, or > if i come back after leaving it for a few hours, no matter what apps are > running. seriously frustrating. > > I had checked the temperatures at some point, dont remember what it was, > but after googling i found it's normal for a stock fan (somewhere in the > 50s), no dust on the fans, all hardware well attached. > getting a new video card tomorrow, as the fan on the one i have is quite > noisy, and that throws one of the suspects away! > > any helps would be appreciated. > > thanks, > Seif A. > > Hi Seif, Do you know if the HD is SATA or IDE? I had a similar problem, random lockups, system totally non-responsive, reset the only way to get the system back up. I tried swapping out all my hardware with no solution until I install the system onto an old IDE drive I had, the SATA drive was fine, in fact my system runs on it now so I figured it might have been a chipset driver issue (or not?) Either way changing from a SATA drive to an IDE drive solved it for me. Hope this helps, Brian. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/