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@gmail.com <mailto:expat.arizonan@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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