Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-11-19 Thread Seif Attar
gt; wobbles, but maybe not as dramatic as you get currently. > > Cheers > > Ian > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Beard > Sent: 01 October 2008 11:53 > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardw

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-02 Thread Rob Beard
Seif Attar wrote: > Rob, I dont know why, for some reason I assumed that there is no > warranty on the thing, I contacted the seller, my warranty runs out in > november! and he told me I can either send the whole pc to him, or > just the motherboard and cpu if I am sure it's one of them that is >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-02 Thread Seif Attar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, The rams are not the cause of the freeze, as it froze with each of them separately. Rob, I dont know why, for some reason I assumed that there is no warranty on the thing, I contacted the seller, my warranty runs out in november! and he told

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-01 Thread Ian Pascoe
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Beard Sent: 01 October 2008 11:53 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure? Seif Attar wrote: > me again, it crashed, so it's not the graphics card, and the noapic > didn't fix it, the l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-01 Thread Renjith Nair
>From your reply it seems the first RAM module or PSU may be faulty. Last year i had a similar problem with my system. I did memtests, cpuburndown tests etc. None of the logs gave any clue about what was going on . Then in one of the forums i found that somebody got around the problem by disabling

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-01 Thread Rob Beard
Seif Attar wrote: > me again, it crashed, so it's not the graphics card, and the noapic > didn't fix it, the last crash happened while I was installing stuff with > synaptic, nothing in the logs. > > After the crash I pressed the reset button, and then it froze while the > grub menu was showing, r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-01 Thread Chris Rowson
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Seif Attar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > me again, it crashed, so it's not the graphics card, and the noapic > didn't fix it, the last crash happened while I was installing stuff with > synaptic, nothing in the logs. > > After the crash I pressed the reset button, an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-01 Thread Seif Attar
me again, it crashed, so it's not the graphics card, and the noapic didn't fix it, the last crash happened while I was installing stuff with synaptic, nothing in the logs. After the crash I pressed the reset button, and then it froze while the grub menu was showing, restarted, it froze after I sel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-30 Thread Seif Attar
hello, The pc hasn't froze since I set noapic in the boot options, but that could be just lucky, as it doesn't crash on a daily basis, the new gpu is in, still have the noapic option set, hopefully it won't crash again! but I have a feeling it's not going to be that easy! :) fingers crossed. Tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-30 Thread Andrew Oakley
On 30/09/2008, James Grabham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the subject of hard drives - it could well be a dodgy hard drive, That wouldn't cause MEMTEST to fail, so I really don't think it is a hard drive issue. My suspicion would be on overheating and memory. Open up the case and ensure all co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-30 Thread Michael Holloway
> Thanks for all who replied, I have 3 hard drives connected to the > machine, 2 sata and one usb2 external storage. I am replacing the GPU > today, a colleague of mine will give him a psu that he has, will try > that tomorrow. Hopefully those changes will resolve it, if not, I'll try > from a live

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-30 Thread Seif Attar
Stephen O'Neill wrote: > Seif Attar wrote: > > any other suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? maybe benchmarking > > software for ubuntu? > > > My immediate suspicion is that your PSU isn't up to scratch. Try putting > in another or if you can't try removing superfluous hardware like drives > a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-30 Thread Adam Bagnall
Seif Attar wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:31 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: > >> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:13 +0100, Seif Attar wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have had problems with ubuntu freezing on gutsy and it's still >>> freezing with hardy, thought it was x64 problem, so i switched to x

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-29 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seif Attar wrote: > any other suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? maybe benchmarking > software for ubuntu? My immediate suspicion is that your PSU isn't up to scratch. Try putting in another or if you can't try removing superfluous hardware lik

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-29 Thread James Grabham
On the subject of hard drives - it could well be a dodgy hard drive, particularly if it's a cheap one, try using a live CD for a while - it'd be the easiest way to test without fiddling with hardware, if that works fine, It'll very probably be the hard drive, and it'll need replacing. > > > Do you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-29 Thread slarty
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-29 Thread Seif Attar
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:31 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:13 +0100, Seif Attar wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have had problems with ubuntu freezing on gutsy and it's still > > freezing with hardy, thought it was x64 problem, so i switched to x32 > > ubuntu, but it's still cra

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-29 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:13 +0100, Seif Attar wrote: > Hello, > > I have had problems with ubuntu freezing on gutsy and it's still > freezing with hardy, thought it was x64 problem, so i switched to x32 > ubuntu, but it's still crashing! then i realised it might not be ubuntu > at all. so I ran a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-29 Thread Rob Beard
Seif Attar wrote: > Hello, > > I have had problems with ubuntu freezing on gutsy and it's still > freezing with hardy, thought it was x64 problem, so i switched to x32 > ubuntu, but it's still crashing! then i realised it might not be ubuntu > at all. so I ran a memtest, that froze as well, I assu

[ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-29 Thread Seif Attar
Hello, I have had problems with ubuntu freezing on gutsy and it's still freezing with hardy, thought it was x64 problem, so i switched to x32 ubuntu, but it's still crashing! then i realised it might not be ubuntu at all. so I ran a memtest, that froze as well, I assume that if the memtest froze t