8.04 still locks up

[steve]

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elmo wrote:
> I thought that I finally had a UBUNTU 8.04 that doesn't freeze and 
> lockup but no, after downloads from different sources, the same old 
> problem ...it works fine for a up to half hour or so then suddenly, the 
> cursor locks and there's nothing I do can free it other than turn the 
> computer off and back on and start over. 
> 
> I've tried trial and error combinations of keypresses to loosen up the 
> cursor....no effect.
> 
> I restart 8.04 and try repeating what I was doing when the freeze 
> occurred but it doesn't freeze again but it freezes when I'm doing 
> something completely different.  There's no consistency to the 
> occurrence of the freeze.
> 
> I've tried installing 8.04 on different partitions but ........same problem.
> 
> I have 7.10 installed both on a regular hard drive partition and also on 
> an external hard drive and it works perfectly.
> 
> The only conclusion I can make is there's some defect in 8.04.
> 
> Does anybody have 8.04 that doesn't freeze?  What's the secret?
> 
> 
> elmo
> 

ive been using 8.04 since it was in testing, never any problems.
currently using it on an ibm laptop, compaq desktop, a homebrew desktop,
and dual boot on an alienware laptop.

sounds like classic hardware problems to me ...... I had exactly the
same symptoms on overheating machines, leaky capacitors, bad memory,
failing power supply..... all things to check.

you try running acpi -V  every couple minutes after booting?  see what
the temp is, and go from there.  checking logs could help as well.



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