thanks for shaaring your experiances with me! On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:58 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <[email protected]> wrote: > > That is about how my laptop was acting using the i915 driver vs. the intel > kernel mode driver... Maybe make sure you're not using that, by default you > shouldn't. I ended up with it trying to make prime gpu switching work. > > It could be gpu related still, most browsers use hardware acceleration that > could be hitting it. > > Try running glx-gears for a while in full-screen to see how it acts if it > dies when heating up. > > I also had an older system that was locking up seemingly whenever I'd hit the > graphics. Turns out the gpu fan went bad, with ambient case fans keeping it > cool enough off the heatsink, but watching a movie or something that hit the > gpu, it would crash. Tearing it open it was then obvious the fan wasn't > working. Of course I couldn't find a fan that fit the stupid thing, so I > ended up buying a new gpu for it, all was well. > > Only ever had one PSU that got wonky on me to crash intermittently in some 25 > years of building pc's, but it happens... > > Also, boot up and in grub run memtestx86 on it, bad memory sectors can cause > grief too with intermittent locks, usually the more ram you invoke, you'll > hit the bad spot. > > -mb > > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 9:36 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> you know.... it seems that the first time of the day I start it it >> runs a few minutes and then freezes. but upon subsequent restarts >> everything is good. >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:18 PM Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I have ssh installed on my system but to ssh into another system you >> > need ssh-server installed on your computer but I can't find it. I >> > guess I'm wrong. What else do you need installed? >> > >> > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:03 PM Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > 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~(-: >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~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
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