On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:47:47 -0500 "Karen Manning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> X will start. Gnome looks great. Leave it for some time and X will > crash. Sometimes the mouse still works and you can gracefully > shutdown, other times the system is completely frozen. Every time it > crashes, there are vertical lines across the whole screen distorting > the picture. The time to crash can be delayed somewhat by not > allowing any screen saver to run. If a screen saver runs, the show's > over. Sorry, that sure smells like a hardware problem to me. Most likely the video board, but it could be most anywhere. What I would do in a case like this is take the whole box completely apart, clean out all the dust and debris, look for connectors that "just don't feel quite right", then put it all back together. If that doesn't make it better, then you have to start substituting parts, starting with the video board, then the memory, then the motherboard. Good luck, you'll need it. BTW, Karen, it's really not nice to send an eight hundred thousand byte message to a list like this. _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
