On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:36:46PM -0700, Katie wrote: > I guess Gateway feels us mere mortals aren't competent enough to fix our > own computers. I can't get the cover off to save my life. Guess I have > to take it to one of their repair centers so they can blow out the dust. > :-/ > > Maybe something else caused the x server problem?
Standard places to check when computers start behaving weirdly: - log files in /var/log, especially /var/log/syslog and /var/log/kern.log - debugging messages from applications; often these are turned on by giving a -v switch to the program when starting it from the shell - any recent changes to the system, hardware or software Bad RAM is a possibility. There is a program around called memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) that can find common memory defects. CPU overheating is a possibility. You might try compiling something and see if you get mysterious non-repeating compiler errors; this is a classic indication of CPU overheating. -- Henry House The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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