<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">I might mean that the hardware on the video card may be getting a little to warm or wearing out. Something to think about if it’s a dinosaur.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, at 21:56, Jim wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div style="font-family:Arial;">I have a dinosaur running Kubuntu 18.04 with a Gigabyte P35-DS3L <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">motherboard and an Intel Core 2 duo E6850 CPU and 8GB RAM. For a video <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">card, I have a GeForce GT 520. A few days ago it started acting up. <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Now, at random, it acts as if the video card shuts off. Both monitors <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">give a no signal message. However, the software I had running continues <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">running. I know this because the dinosaur still plays the audio. The <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">keyboard doesn't respond. crtl+alt+backspace doesn't work. I can ssh <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">into it, but it won't reboot. The only thing I can do to recover is to <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">hold down the power switch until it shuts off, then turn it on again.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Any idea what this might be?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">thanks<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss<br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div id="sig4468849"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature"> Harold Hartley<br></div><div class="signature"> 17632 N. 5th place<br></div><div class="signature"> Phoenix, AZ 85022<br></div><div class="signature"> wheelie207@ownmail.net<br></div><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>