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, and then it froze while the > grub menu was showing, restarted, it froze after I selected an entry > from the grub and the text "Starting Up" was showing and nothing > happened, in the past I had to completely turn off the pc and unplug it > from electricity in order to have it boot normally again (this weird > freeze on reboot after crash doesn't always happen, could be that I only > notice it when I am working on the machine when the crash occurs, maybe > when it happens while I am away, whatever overheated has cooled down, or > whatever capacitor had gone fubar had released it's electricity? cpu > temp was 55c after the crash), so yesterday I removed the first RAM, > tried to boot it, it froze again, then I removed the second ram and it > booted normally, so I am now testing it with only 1 piece of ram, if it > still crashes, I'll try the PSU, but my friend keeps forgetting to bring > it! maybe tomorrow. Another thing I noticed yesterday, is that after I > force the computer to shutdown (holding the power button), the num lock > indicator on my keyboard is still on, even though the computer is > shutdown. Checked the bios setting to make sure I haven't enabled > key-press power on, and it's not enabled. > > Sorry for posting so much about this, I realise this is not Ubuntu > related any more (probably and hopefully), but I have no where to go, > and I imagine that if I take it to a hardware specialist that he will > want an OS that he is more comfortable with. > >
I'd definitely go with swapping out the PSU. Could very well be a power/power quality issue. :-) Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
