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Thu Jun 12 23:09:36 BST 2008
Last year i had a similar problem with my system. I did memtests,
cpuburndown tests etc. None of the logs gave any clue about what was going
on . Then in one of the forums i found that somebody got around the problem
by disabling Nvideo proprietary drivers. I did the same and it worked. I
don't know whether your problem is the same, but after that fix my computer
never froze or crashed (touch wood).
Regards,
Renjith
2008/10/1 Seif Attar <iam at seifattar.net>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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<div dir="ltr">From your reply it seems the first RAM module or PSU may be faulty.<br><br>Last year i had a similar problem with my system. I did memtests, cpuburndown tests etc. None of the logs gave any clue about what was going on . Then in one of the forums i found that somebody got around the problem by disabling Nvideo proprietary drivers. I did the same and it worked. I don't know whether your problem is the same, but after that fix my computer never froze or crashed (touch wood).<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Renjith<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/1 Seif Attar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iam at seifattar.net">iam at seifattar.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
me again, it crashed, so it's not the graphics card, and the noapic<br>
didn't fix it, the last crash happened while I was installing stuff with<br>
synaptic, nothing in the logs.<br>
<br>
After the crash I pressed the reset button, and then it froze while the<br>
grub menu was showing, restarted, it froze after I selected an entry<br>
from the grub and the text "Starting Up" was showing and nothing<br>
happened, in the past I had to completely turn off the pc and unplug it<br>
from electricity in order to have it boot normally again (this weird<br>
freeze on reboot after crash doesn't always happen, could be that I only<br>
notice it when I am working on the machine when the crash occurs, maybe<br>
when it happens while I am away, whatever overheated has cooled down, or<br>
whatever capacitor had gone fubar had released it's electricity? cpu<br>
temp was 55c after the crash), so yesterday I removed the first RAM,<br>
tried to boot it, it froze again, then I removed the second ram and it<br>
booted normally, so I am now testing it with only 1 piece of ram, if it<br>
still crashes, I'll try the PSU, but my friend keeps forgetting to bring<br>
it! maybe tomorrow. Another thing I noticed yesterday, is that after I<br>
force the computer to shutdown (holding the power button), the num lock<br>
indicator on my keyboard is still on, even though the computer is<br>
shutdown. Checked the bios setting to make sure I haven't enabled<br>
key-press power on, and it's not enabled.<br>
<br>
Sorry for posting so much about this, I realise this is not Ubuntu<br>
related any more (probably and hopefully), but I have no where to go,<br>
and I imagine that if I take it to a hardware specialist that he will<br>
want an OS that he is more comfortable with.<br>
<br>
<br>
Peace,<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Seif A.<br>
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