On 11/09/2012 12:19 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
I don't see anything to give me any definite clues. But here are a
couple of questions that might yield a clue:
1. Has this machine sat unused and not plugged in for any length of
time (could be the CMOS battery is dead/dieing)?
I bought it in January and used it every day since then. When it was a
windows box, I would have it running for several days at a time doing my
usenet harvesting.
1. When the machine is locked up, can you do Ctrl-Alt-F2 and get a
console (Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the GUI)?
I can't do anything with it. I can't get to a console. I can ping it
when it's working normally, but when it locks up it doesn't respond to
pings or anything else. When it locks up it stops everything. If I'm
watching a movie on it when it locks up, the audio stops and the last
frame is on the screen until I push the power button long enough for the
machine to turn it off. I have it and the other box plugged into a
netgear router. There's a light on the front of it for each computer
that's plugged into it. When I download using this machine, it's light
on the router blinks. When the machine locks up, it's light stops blinking.
Also I opened it up and checked for dust bunnies. There was a little
dust, but not enough to cause any problems. Today I opened a terminal
and sensors -f. I get results that vary between 40 and 60F. I do
believe I'm not getting an accurate reading because it's not that old in
here. Also I shut the machine down and checked the heat sink for the
processor. It wasn't even warm.
1. What, exactly, do you mean by "locking up"? More specifically,
can you be sure that the machine is locked up or could it just be
the display? One way to test that theory is to ssh into the
machine from another machine and run some application that does
updates like top or htop, or a looping script displaying the time
every few seconds. If the machine seems to lock up but the remote
machine still shows ongoing changes, then it is not the whole
machine locking up.
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Derek Trotter
<expat.arizo...@gmail.com <mailto:expat.arizo...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I have an HP Pavillion p6-2003w pc. This tinyurl
http://tinyurl.com/b36tanr takes you to a page at HP that will
give you details about what's in it if the following isn't enough.
Motherboard
AAHD2-HY (Holly)
Processor
AMD E2 3200 Processor
Memory 4 GB
Speed: PC3-10600 MB/sec
Type: DDR3-1333
Video graphics HD 6370D
Sound/Audio Integrated Realtek ALC 656 Audio
Networking
LAN: 1000-Base-T
Interface: PCI Express x1
Technology: Realtek RTL8111E gigabit ethernet controller
Hard drive 1 TB
CD/DVD disc drive SuperMulti DVD Burner drive
Memory card reader 6-in-1 multimedia card reader
Power Supply Internal 300W (100V-240V)
The problem is that it's been freezing at random. It was really
bad on Kubuntu 12.0.4 64 bit. It was like the bad old windows 3.1
days. I never knew when it would lock up. Sometimes it would run
all night without any problems. Other times it would lock up a
few minutes after I rebooted it the last time it locked up.
Sometimes the image on the monitor would just freeze. Other
times the monitor would go to a background of either blue or gray
with thin vertical lilnes. I upgraded to Kubuntu 12.10 64 bit and
it was a little more reliable. Once it locked up and when I
rebooted it, the sound card no longer worked.
Is there some bug with this machine? Is there some problem with
ubuntu? I'm wondering because last year my other computer behaved
similarly. I posted the problem to this list and someone told me
my problem was a defective nvidia card. They made a bunch of
chips that didn't get along with something in windows versions
after xp and versions of ubuntu after, I believe 8.04.
Any help will be apreciated.
Thanks
Derek
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