HP locking up

[Dazed_75]

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)?
   2. 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)?
   3. 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>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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