Nvidia driver problem

[compdoc]

Jon Anderson:
>The only thing I upgraded on my Emachine
>t3104 was I added anouther half gig of memory which makes it 3/4 of a
>gig total.

1) Run memtest86+ overnight, or at least 5 or 6 passes.

2) Open the computer and look for any capacitors that are rounded on top:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

(click pictures to see close up. )

3) check your hard drive's smart data and/or look at the drive's health with
gnome disk utility.