display shuts off at random

[Harold Hartley]

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.

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019, at 21:56, Jim wrote:
> I have a dinosaur running Kubuntu 18.04 with a Gigabyte P35-DS3L 
> motherboard and an Intel Core 2 duo E6850 CPU and 8GB RAM. For a video 
> card, I have a GeForce GT 520. A few days ago it started acting up. 
> Now, at random, it acts as if the video card shuts off. Both monitors 
> give a no signal message. However, the software I had running continues 
> running. I know this because the dinosaur still plays the audio. The 
> keyboard doesn't respond. crtl+alt+backspace doesn't work. I can ssh 
> into it, but it won't reboot. The only thing I can do to recover is to 
> hold down the power switch until it shuts off, then turn it on again.
> 
> Any idea what this might be?
> 
> thanks
> 
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