On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:04 -0600, Phil Meyer wrote:
I built a machine about a year ago that started having these same
problems about 4 months ago. I then changed it back to the nv video
driver (6150 on-board), but the problems persist.
The user is very non expert and has difficulty explaining the
symptoms.
Last week we ran lots of diagnostics with no errors. memtest ran for
30
hours without an error.
Sitting in front of the system for hours, and performing a complete
update (F7) demonstrates a good machine. However, 30 minutes after
leaving, the user calls to report another hard lock up.
The user is getting frustrated, and it sure looks to me like a
hardware
issue, but the only common denominator in their usage habits is
Firefox.
At first, I also thought it was a hardware issue. I checked:
- Bios settings (tried enabling/disabling some stuff)
- HDD (ran smart tests and xfs_check, xfs_repairs on all of them)
- Graphics card (tried different drivers)
As long as I don't use firefox, everything is well. I'll try, for a
period, to use opera or something else... , and leave my PC on.
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Renich Bon Ciric <renich(a)woralelandia.com>
Woralelandia