me again, it crashed, so it's not the graphics card, and the noapic didn't fix it, the last crash happened while I was installing stuff with synaptic, nothing in the logs.
After the crash I pressed the reset button, and then it froze while the grub menu was showing, restarted, it froze after I selected an entry from the grub and the text "Starting Up" was showing and nothing happened, in the past I had to completely turn off the pc and unplug it from electricity in order to have it boot normally again (this weird freeze on reboot after crash doesn't always happen, could be that I only notice it when I am working on the machine when the crash occurs, maybe when it happens while I am away, whatever overheated has cooled down, or whatever capacitor had gone fubar had released it's electricity? cpu temp was 55c after the crash), so yesterday I removed the first RAM, tried to boot it, it froze again, then I removed the second ram and it booted normally, so I am now testing it with only 1 piece of ram, if it still crashes, I'll try the PSU, but my friend keeps forgetting to bring it! maybe tomorrow. Another thing I noticed yesterday, is that after I force the computer to shutdown (holding the power button), the num lock indicator on my keyboard is still on, even though the computer is shutdown. Checked the bios setting to make sure I haven't enabled key-press power on, and it's not enabled. Sorry for posting so much about this, I realise this is not Ubuntu related any more (probably and hopefully), but I have no where to go, and I imagine that if I take it to a hardware specialist that he will want an OS that he is more comfortable with. Peace, Seif A. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
