Euan Clark wrote:
What temperatures were you seeing?
My video card doesn't seem to have temperature sensors that I can see from my OS. But I don't know how to access them, even if there are any that I can access. I forgot to mention in my last post that I put my fingers on the GPU heat-sinks after the display forze, and it did not feel hot, just luke-warm.
Divide and conquer time. System lockups may be occurring because of another component going awry as the system comes up to normal working temperature. Coud be a marginal-seating issue. Check the seating of the PCI cards and all power connectors. Another of the usual suspects is the RAM - are they seated properly? If so run a memtest using a liveCD, e.g. Gentoo-minimal has one. Running up a livecd may also give you some indication of it being a hardware issue or related to the install you have on disk. Also eliminate that the motherboard isn't shorting to the case in some way, e.g. loose screw floating round, dust etc.
I'll run a memtest tonight. Everything seems to be in there pretty snuggly. I took the video card out a couple of days ago to write down any helpful looking numbers that were on it. I'll check for any shorts, but I've looked closely at the entire inside of the box, and did not see anything suspicious. I'll try John's suggestion, and replace the motherboard battery.
Nvidia split their drivers at some point into nvidia-drivers and legacy-drivers. I'm unsure at what point this occurred and which one is for your card.hmmn - AGP Bus - can we see the output of sudo lspci and cat /proc/cpuinfo
Ok, see attached files.
Whats the history on this box and whats on it? Any chance it has been knocked around? Any out-of-package-management / compiled-from-source installs of drivers? Recent BIOS upgrades?
I bought my box second-hand through SellMeFree.co.nz. I don't know its history before that. That was over a year ago, and it's been running perfectly until now.
Considering that Live CDs and a fresh install of Debian freeze, I don't think it's a software-side problem (and no, I'm only using system components from Debain). And I've never upgraded the BIOS since I bought the thing.
Thanks, Aidan
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