Desktop freeze; Hardware, Software?

[Shelagh Manton]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:02:22 +1100, Shelagh Manton wrote:

> Over the past few weeks my desktop has frozen occasionally. The mouse
> works but nothing else does. I've tried crt-alt-backspace to log in again,
> I set up so that system monitor pops up, but needless to say it doesn't.
> I read in the O'reilly LPI cert. book that crtl-alt-f2 sould bring up the
> other ttys and work through things without X. But this doesn't work etiher.
> I've scanned the log files in the hopes of spotting something different to
> usual going on, but everything seems fine.
>  Sometime the led at the front of the computer flashes and
> sometimes nothing happens when its frozen. I've tried leaving it to
> unfreeze, but have ended up just turning the computer off an restarting. 
> 
> Its got to the stage that I really need to find out what is going on.
> May be its hardware? Possibly my gforce4 card is getting flaky in the heat?
> 
> 
> Suggestions of what else to look for would be appreciated.
> 
> Shelagh

Sorry, realised I should say Iam using ubuntu breezy
with everything updated. Plus I also use the realtime module so I can use
jackd. I also have the breezy backports repository allowed for synaptic.