On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 8:32 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

that's what I did! I updated the kernel with apt.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 8:24 PM Andrew McRobb <andrewmcrobb@gmail.com> wrote:
My mistake, if you can scan the hard drive without it freezing, and see everything is ok, and you know for sure your card attached isn't the issue, it could also be the kernel, if you updated it recently and it simply isn't playing nice with the old hardware.
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 1:19 AM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
it only crashed once a few days ago.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 8:17 PM Andrew McRobb <andrewmcrobb@gmail.com> wrote:
hardware or cabling I mean.
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 1:13 AM Andrew McRobb <andrewmcrobb@gmail.com> wrote:
Hmm another thing I would try too is also seeking out any hard drive bad sectors. -- I had a few cases were bad hard drive would cause my computer run at a crawl, but if it's randomly freezing it maybe hard to troubleshoot... Have you tried disconnecting your video card and only use on board video? -- If no issues, it maybe a driver/video card issue.

If it's still crashing randomly without video card, I would recommend trying to see if you can get a friend or someone to help get you a live USB of mint or whatever you like and try checking the hard drive for issues.
https://mintguide.org/system/283-how-to-check-and-fix-the-disk-for-errors-and-bad-sectors-in-linux-mint.html

If it even crashes still with the live USB, sounds like something else majorly wrong w/ the hardware, would be my guess and you are going to have to spend sometime swapping in new hardware cabling at that point, would be my guess.
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 1:02 AM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
run from the boot menu. no errors.... oh.... I forgot to mention that it crashed once since this freezing thing started..
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:32 PM Andrew McRobb <andrewmcrobb@gmail.com> wrote:
I would run Memtest and see whats going on first. Random freezes can be a sign of bad RAM, especially if you are using older computer parts. I would first run Memtest from the boot menu of your OS and test the sticks and see if any errors throw up.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 9:18 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
this is a new happening. the computer has hummed along nicely for more than two years now.
$ sudo lshw
[sudo] password for bmike1:
mikesbeast
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:10 PM Jim <jim.nantz15@comcast.net> wrote:
I used to have an HP computer. It would lock up at random when it was running linux. I found out later that there was a bug in the bios it was using that only affected linux, and HP wasn't interested, at that time in fixing the bug. Others might have better luck coming up with a solution if you can tell the list what hardware is in this computer of yours.

On 12/14/18 7:14 AM, Michael wrote:
I start linux and everything is good. But after I start Chrome sometimes it freezes. Any ideas as to why?

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