Re: HP locking up
Open the box again and check the cpu heat sink. If it is not getting very warm, it could be loose or poorly sealed with thermal material. That could make for intermittent heating problems. You might have to remove and remount the heat sink. On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.comwrote: 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.arizo...@gmail.comwrote: 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 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, always use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy) and not To: or CC:. Remove all addresses from the message body before sending a Forwarded message. This can prevent spy programs capturing addresses from the recipient list and message body. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe,
Re: HP locking up
Have you tried running memtest86 on it for a while? http://www.memtest86.com/ -- KevinO --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: HP locking up
I just got the beast rebooted after doing so. The progress indicator got to 44% when the bottom of the screen turned red and numbers started scrolling so fast they were a blur. So I'm guessing the several million errors it found before I rebooted it just might have something to do with it. So I'll send off for another stick of RAM. Then I'll use the old one as something to put on the keyring. Thanks for the suggestions folks. On 11/09/2012 04:30 AM, KevinO wrote: Have you tried running memtest86 on it for a while? http://www.memtest86.com/ --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: HP locking up
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.arizo...@gmail.com mailto:expat.arizo...@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 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, always use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy) and not To: or CC:. Remove all addresses from the message body before sending a Forwarded message. This can prevent spy programs capturing addresses from the recipient list and message body. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
