[ale] More Lockups

[Calvin Harrigan]

David Corbin wrote:

>On Sunday 10 October 2004 14:52, Jim Popovitch wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 08:04, David Corbin wrote:
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>>>One other thing: I do have an NVIDIA card (w/ the latest drivers).  The
>>>card is old, and DOES have a known problem, in that sometimes a small
>>>region on the screen gets funny tints.  I do plan on replacing this,
>>>anyway, but does anyone think this would be the cause ?
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>>Try booting into a mode that doesn't start X and see if you still
>>experience lockups.  
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>I have lockups during the boot process, long before X is started....(usually 
>around the point drives are mounted).
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>> If it does
>>still lock up, I would get memtest and use it in boot mode (i forget
>>just how to do this but google should show you).
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>Thanks.   The system runs Windows fine(considering), without any lock ups.
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>>good luck,
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>>-Jim P.
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What motherboard/chipset are you using?  Which distro?