feisty freezing recently

Karl Goetz kamping_kaiser at internode.on.net
Sat Oct 13 15:29:18 BST 2007


On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 11:37 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, maning sambale wrote:
> 
> > 2.  At one instance, it froze when I'm in the BIOS setup.  So I'm
> > thinking it is due to some corrupted BIOS settings.  I then tried to
> > reset the BIOS by removing the CMOS battery for about 30 minutes.
> 

Start checking for bad caps+burned chips... that sounds pretty bad.
kk

> If the BIOS crashed, there's something seriously wrong that has little or
> nothing to do with edubuntu.  Are all the fans in working order?
> 
> > I'm beginning to think its a hardware problem:
> > P4 HT processor
> > Asrock 775i65G motherboard
> > Powercolor ATI Radeon videocard
> 
> You might look in the BIOS and see what the settings are.  If you can set
> "safe defaults", that might be a good idea.
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
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