<div dir="ltr"><br>On the subject of hard drives - it could well be a dodgy hard drive, particularly if it's a cheap one, try using a live CD for a while - it'd be the easiest way to test without fiddling with hardware, if that works fine, It'll very probably be the hard drive, and it'll need replacing.<br> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> <br> Do you know if the HD is SATA or IDE?  I had a similar problem, random<br> lockups,<br> system totally non-responsive, reset the only way to get the system back<br> up.  I<br> tried swapping out all my hardware with no solution until I install the<br> system onto<br> an old IDE drive I had, the SATA drive was fine, in fact my system runs<br> on it now<br> so I figured it might have been a chipset driver issue (or not?)  Either<br> way changing<br> from a SATA drive to an IDE drive solved it for me.<br> <br> Hope this helps,<br> <br> Brian.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> <br> <br> --<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>