Use the command "last" It can tell you when the machine was rebooted or crashed Then look at the programs that crashed during that time with the abrt program. With CentOs 7 the alsa sound routines caused problems on my system in the early days. They have been fixed now. On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 12:45 PM Michael wrote: > I found something that might work. Thanks, Bob. > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:28 AM Bob Elzer wrote: > >> CentOs has a program called gnome-abrt it is the automatic bug reporting >> tool >> >> It shows a list of programs that have crashed along with the dump data. >> It also includes kernel crashes. >> >> See if you have a similar program on your OS >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 8:16 AM Michael wrote: >> >>> memtest reported: pass complete- no errors >>> it took about an hour..... should it have taken longer? >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 3:44 AM wrote: >>> >>>> Run memtest... >>>> >>>> >>>> Michael writes: >>>> >>>> > It doesn't happen often bu every once in a while the computer >>>> freezes. I >>>> > then do a hard reboot (push the button until it turns off) and when >>>> it is >>>> > powering on nothing loads.... not even the BIOS screen (the first >>>> screen >>>> > that appears after pushing the power button). Any ideas as to what is >>>> going >>>> > on? >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss