HP locking up

Fri Nov 9 00:42:01 MST 2012

On 11/09/2012 12:19 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> I don't see anything to give me any definite clues. But here are a 
> couple of questions that might yield a clue:
>
>  1. Has this machine sat unused and not plugged in for any length of
>     time (could be the CMOS battery is dead/dieing)?
>
I bought it in January and used it every day since then.  When it was a 
windows box, I would have it running for several days at a time doing my 
usenet harvesting.

>  1. When the machine is locked up, can you do Ctrl-Alt-F2 and get a
>     console (Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the GUI)?
>
I can't do anything with it.  I can't get to a console.  I can ping it 
when it's working normally, but when it locks up it doesn't respond to 
pings or anything else.  When it locks up it stops everything.  If I'm 
watching a movie on it when it locks up, the audio stops and the last 
frame is on the screen until I push the power button long enough for the 
machine to turn it off.   I have it and the other box plugged into a 
netgear router.  There's a light on the front of it for each computer 
that's plugged into it.  When I download using this machine, it's light 
on the router blinks.  When the machine locks up, it's light stops blinking.

Also I opened it up and checked for dust bunnies.  There was a little 
dust, but not enough to cause any problems.  Today I opened a terminal 
and sensors -f.  I get results that vary between 40 and 60F.  I do 
believe I'm not getting an accurate reading because it's not that old in 
here.  Also I shut the machine down and checked the heat sink for the 
processor.  It wasn't even warm.

>  1. What, exactly, do you mean by "locking up"?  More specifically,
>     can you be sure that the machine is locked up or could it just be
>     the display?  One way to test that theory is to ssh into the
>     machine from another machine and run some application that does
>     updates like top or htop, or a looping script displaying the time
>     every few seconds.  If the machine seems to lock up but the remote
>     machine still shows ongoing changes, then it is not the whole
>     machine locking up.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Derek Trotter 
> <expat.arizonan at gmail.com <mailto:expat.arizonan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have an HP Pavillion p6-2003w pc.  This tinyurl
>     http://tinyurl.com/b36tanr takes you to a page at HP that will
>     give you details about what's in it if the following isn't enough.
>
>     Motherboard
>     AAHD2-HY (Holly)
>
>     Processor
>     AMD E2 3200 Processor
>
>     Memory 4 GB
>     Speed: PC3-10600 MB/sec
>     Type: DDR3-1333
>
>     Video graphics HD 6370D
>
>     Sound/Audio Integrated Realtek ALC 656 Audio
>
>     Networking
>     LAN: 1000-Base-T
>     Interface: PCI Express x1
>     Technology: Realtek RTL8111E gigabit ethernet controller
>
>     Hard drive 1 TB
>
>     CD/DVD disc drive SuperMulti DVD Burner drive
>
>     Memory card reader 6-in-1 multimedia card reader
>
>     Power Supply Internal 300W (100V-240V)
>
>
>     The problem is that it's been freezing at random.  It was really
>     bad on Kubuntu 12.0.4 64 bit.  It was like the bad old windows 3.1
>     days. I never knew when it would lock up.  Sometimes it would run
>     all night without any problems.  Other times it would lock up a
>     few minutes after I rebooted it the last time it locked up.
>      Sometimes the image on the monitor would just freeze.  Other
>     times the monitor would go to a background of either blue or gray
>     with thin vertical lilnes.  I upgraded to Kubuntu 12.10 64 bit and
>     it was a little more reliable.  Once it locked up and when I
>     rebooted it, the sound card no longer worked.
>
>     Is there some bug with this machine? Is there some problem with
>     ubuntu?  I'm wondering because last year my other computer behaved
>     similarly. I posted the problem to this list and someone told me
>     my problem was a defective nvidia card.  They made a bunch of
>     chips that didn't get along with something in windows versions
>     after xp and versions of ubuntu after, I believe 8.04.
>
>     Any help will be apreciated.
>
>     Thanks
>     Derek
>
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