<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <blockquote cite="mid:mailman.241.1377950420.27164.ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> You misunderstood my question. Gustin mentioned that the hardware might be broken (= damaged), while the OP said that the hardware does work with Windows. Broken hardware doesn't work with Windows too ;), when it's broken than it's broken. An exception might be, hardware that is broken in a way, that it is very sensible regarding to heat. To check broken hardware there is coolant spray. It might be that the hardware becomes hotter or faster hot when using Linux, than when using Windows.</pre> </blockquote> I was mainly responding to "it will demonstrate if the problem is with the nVidia driver" I don't know how far you go back with Linux, but me its a few years. I recall installing Linux never to see anything due to 'proprietary drivers'. Just a nice black screen. Certain distributions worked and others didn't. Drivers were not as universal as they are now. Sometimes in the earlier days the drivers would fail and cause very odd things, leaving real chicken or the egg questions. What failed? Driver? Hardware? Both? Act of God? Sometimes failure happened after an install was up and runing for a couple of months and not just to one person, to many. The devil would be you may find the fail and everyone else is fine, until their install encounters the same conditions. Then a rash of people reporting the same odd thing. Something like a temperature being reached on a card could do it. I was just saying you can't rule out drivers ever, Linux is not on the same playing field, even though its more plug and play than ever. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw</a> Okay so its a bit tongue in cheek, but it does point out that even lately (2012) there can be proprietary issues and native Linux drivers are in many cases poorly supported. </body> </html>