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After building and maintaining PC's for as long as I have, there is
still one VERY common problem that I continue to overlook. The power
supply. <br>
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Not only do most people forget to consider that when adding new drives,
ram or updating their processor, but they can also slowly go bad and
provide flaky power to your machine. This often leads to unpredictable
and unexplainable errors, crashes and lockups.<br>
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Post what type and wattage of power supply you have, and how many
drives (hard drives, cd/dvd), memory, etc in your machine. Do you have
lots of USB peripherals, etc? Anything that uses power (at least a
significant amount...don't tell me you have a keyboard :).<br>
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Then either take a spare one that you or a buddy owns that you KNOW
will be powerful enough and is working properly. You aren't really a
nerd unless you have at least one spare. Maybe it's in another machine.
Turn it off and tear out it's power supply. Run your machine for a
while (the longer the better) with the "new" power supply in there and
see if that helps.<br>
<br>
If so, go buy yourself a power supply and rejoice at your newly
functional machine. If not...well...we've all seen "Office Space".<br>
<br>
Dan Drake wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm running Ubuntu and for some time now, I've had a big problem with it
locking up. The machine simply won't run for more than 8-10 hours
without locking up. It just freezes, completely, and there's nothing in
the logs to suggest what went wrong.
Sometimes it locks up after a little while, sometimes it goes all day.
This has been happening since summer and all this month, so heat is not
a problem.
It seemed like a memory problem, but I ran memtest86 overnight (about 40
passes total) and it showed no errors. So it seems like a kernel bug, or
a problem with the motherboard. Any suggestions on how to track down the
problem?
I upgraded to Edgy Eft, since that has a new kernel, but an hour
after getting that going, it locked up just like before.
This is very irritating. I use a Windows machine sometimes at work and
it's very depressing to see it run continuously for a week or more with
no problems while my Linux box crashes about once a day!
Here's some specs:
MSI KM3M-V motherboard
Sempron 1.75GHz cpu
2 512MB sticks of Crucial RAM
Suggestions for how to track down the problem? Thanks.
Dan
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