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Matt Garman wrote:
| Since doing my last 'emerge -vuD world' a few days ago, my system
| has locked up two or three times. And it hasn't locked up while I
| was using it---I step away for a while, come back, and the screen is
| blank (but the monitor i
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> Now, I know this is about the most vague question I can ask, but
> does anyone have any suggestions on likely places to start looking?
> I haven't changed any hardware, so I'm guessing that it's a software
> issue. I have no idea what is causing the lockup.
>
Typically it's the graphics driv
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:27:42AM -0800, Bob Sanders wrote:
> Typically it's the graphics drivers hanging the AGP bus. But you
> didn't memtion if you were running xscreensaver. If you're
> running xscreensaver, do -
> Then, when it hang again, ssh in and killall xscreensaver.
Well, a lockup h
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:27:42AM -0800, Bob Sanders wrote:
> > Typically it's the graphics drivers hanging the AGP bus. But you
> > didn't memtion if you were running xscreensaver. If you're
> > running xscreensaver, do -
> > Then, when it hang again, ssh in and killall xscreensaver.
>
> Wel
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Matt Garman wrote:
> I'm hesitant to try this, only because the lockups are so random.
> It's been almost two weeks since it last happened; I have a feeling
> that I could get lucky and it won't happen again forever (or it
> could happen in the next five minutes). Either way,
the most common cause of random freezing is bad capacitors on the mother
board bad ones usually bulge up or leak a crystalizing liquid.
If you have an MSI board made with tiwanese caps this is the problem.
Don't be discouraged from trying to recap your board I have had 100%
success trying just be
