Speaking of which, where can one buy compressed air cans these days? My laptop needs a blow out I think.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Robert Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > From experience, the two most common causes of machine lock-ups have been > mentioned already > > - power supplies can easily be tested (I can even lend you a tester) They > (power supplies) are very cheap too. > - dust buildup on the CPU cooling fins can be sorted with compressed air or > a blower (be careful not to cut your fingers on the fan) > > HTH > > On 22 October 2014 13:30, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for your replies everyone. I ran memtester for abt 5 hrs yesterday >> without noticing any thing. Box has not been altered for over a year. Gut >> feeling is that Mageia 4 has a faulty app which runs before login. No probs >> before installing Mageia 4. Not related to wifi problems. Opera was a dog >> trying to run facebook and thought at 1st this was the problem but not so so >> have gone over to firefox with a far better response. >> >> Currently running Mageia 2 on a 2nd hd in the same box. Going out now so >> will shut all apps down and leave memtest86 alone running >> >> thanks >> >> Barry >> ----------------------------- >> On 21/10/14 16:02, Barry wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, could I have some words of wisdom pls re this problem. >>> >>> Every so often the box just stops and screen freezes. No mouse, no >>> keyboard. I have to switch off then reboot. The 2nd last time this >>> happened I had booted, got to the login screen and left it idle for a >>> time. Screen was frozen so tried to login from another box but wifi had >>> not started (naturally). Next time I logged in & went straight to kde >>> system guard to see what was running. The last item started was sleep >>> with cmd "K sleep 60". There was another app started by mgaapplet but >>> was a zombie so I deleted mgaapplet & crashed the box. Until now I >>> thought it was an app I was running but not now. >>> >>> Any suggestions as to where to look to solve this problem are most >>> welcome. >>> >>> uname -a = "Linux TheBox 3.12.20-server-1.mga4 #1 SMP Fri May 16 >>> 16:03:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux" >>> >>> Memory currently 501.4mg/1.5gb. sleep is still running with the highest >>> pid. >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> Barry >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > > -- > Robert Fisher > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
