I think my issue might also be grafix related because when it first started doing this the dark areas on my desktop picture would turn blue when it froze. I do have another system. Could you walk me through solving the problem?
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 11:11 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <[email protected]> wrote: > > It really could be about anything, hardware or software. Unplug everything > unnecessary, even usb things, and just see if it locks up then. I've had > psu's do this, video cards, ram, even usb devices cause weird hardware-ish > problems. Check dmesg and /var/log as well for errors/events, could indicate > a flaky device. > > Also software - upgrading ram recently, I also updated my system since I had > to reboot anyways, and my pc began locking up every 2 days. I thought the > new ram perhaps was bad, but memtest looked ok. It took some digging, but > guess I picked up a bug in using an old intel graphics driver inadvertently, > removed that driver, and I've had 70 days of uptime since. > > I had to get a bit creative to diag this, including sshing into it from > another system when it did lock up. Turns out it was graphics related, just > the display froze, but the system worked otherwise headless. This led me to > investigate graphics as a source of the lockups to fix at a driver level. If > you have another system available, I'd suggest that. > > -mb > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 6:36 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> sometimes my computer freezes. is iut the power supply? >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
