On Sunday 27 May 2007 18:56, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Sunday 27 May 2007 10:42, Sorin Peste wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am getting infrequent and seemingly random lock-ups on my openSUSE
> > 10.2 - as in, nothing responds anymore (no ctrl+alt+backspace,
> > nothing) and the only solution is a computer reboot. How do I go
> > about diagnosing this problem? I am using KDE.
>


> Lastly, there's an outside chance that the problem is with the video
> card, and you can boot to a non-GUI / non-X run level (include a '3' in
> the kernel boot arguments). This might tax the video card less and
> could allow you to run longer without error. I don't know how to
> diagnose video card problems, though.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Sorin
>
> Randall Schulz

I have come to this conclusion tentatively with a problem I have been having 
intermittently. It appeared temperature related, but not conclusively. I 
swapped the graphics card with an almost identical machine and it appears to 
have solved the problem - on both machines. The machine which now has the 
suspect card runs at a lower resolution and slower scan rates, so I am 
guessing it is thermal stress on the graphics card.
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