<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV></DIV> <DIV>Hello. I'm here again...</DIV> <DIV> I tried Steven's suggestion placing the "pci=nomsi" option in the grub. Didn't work. At first I was excited because the first night nothing happened, but the next day, it was freezing again.</DIV> <DIV> I'll try to reformat my computer this weekend to change the filesystem to ext4... nothing to loose. Otherwise I'm afraid I'll just have to wait until I can buy a new computer.<BR> I wish at least there was some kind of log that would point me to the cause of the problem.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P> <DIV> <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <P> <DIV>Eric.</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://eamner.hispasonicos.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://eamner.hispasonicos.com</A> </DIV> <P> <DIV> </DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Message: 1<BR>Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 14:07:39 +0300<BR>From: Willy Hamra <<A href="mailto:w.hamra1987@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:w.hamra1987@gmail.com">w.hamra1987@gmail.com</A>><BR>Subject: Re: Random freezes in Kubuntu<BR>To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <<A href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" ymailto="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A>><BR>Message-ID:<BR> <<A href="mailto:15edeae40905120407o187d092eoed02cbf32619a54b@mail.gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:15edeae40905120407o187d092eoed02cbf32619a54b@mail.gmail.com">15edeae40905120407o187d092eoed02cbf32619a54b@mail.gmail.com</A>><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8<BR><BR>2009/5/11 Eric Marquez <<A href="mailto:eamner@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:eamner@yahoo.com">eamner@yahoo.com</A>>:<BR>> @Steven:<BR>> Thanks for your answer. And thanks for the tip, I'll try it. Where exactly<BR>> should I place that line (pci=nomsi )? do you mean in the Grub menu?<BR>><BR>> @Ric:<BR>> ?Thanks for your answer... your approach is interesting but, if the problem<BR>> should be Power Supply, why doesn't it happen in Windows (remember I have a<BR>> dual boot), and why didn't it happen when I had kde3?<BR>><BR>> @Lamanary Ramos de Pina:<BR>> ?Lamanary: thanks for the link. It's very interesting and it's the first<BR>> time I see this problem categorized as Bug. All the descriptions of the<BR>> problem are not exactly as mine, so I'm not sure that's exactly my case, but<BR>> anyway I'll subscribe to that bug and try to participate. I'll do anything<BR>> to solve this problem.<BR>><BR>><BR><BR>from my experience with computers, though you said windows and KDE3<BR>were fine, is that such freezes occur with hardware problems<BR>concerning hard disk drives and CD drives.<BR>my computer for instance, freezes completely if i insert a damage or<BR>scratched CD, nothing, even ther mouse stops moving until i click<BR>eject.<BR>since i do a lot of maintenance for people, i attack foreign hard<BR>disks a lot to my system, sometime SATA sometime the old PATA, in both<BR>cases, a hard disk with some bad sectors, connector probrlms orany<BR>kind of misbehaving, generaly stuff that lets the HD take a long time<BR>to respond (if it ever responded) freezes the whole system till the<BR>response is given, and in many times, to save my system (i know it's<BR>very unrecommended) i just resort to unplugging the hard disk from<BR>the board connectors to be able to get my system back and shut it down<BR>properly.<BR>your problem could be totally unrelated to this kind of hardware<BR>issues, but for a start to diagnose, are you using the same hard disk,<BR>same partition as when you were using KDE3?<BR>hope this helps<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Willy K. Hamra<BR>Manager of Hamra Information Systems<BR>Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.<BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br> <hr size=1><br><font face="Verdana" size="-2">¡Obtén la mejor experiencia en la web!<br>Descarga gratis el nuevo Internet Explorer 8.br> http://downloads.yahoo.com/ieak8/?l=mx </font></body></html>