I had a similar issue except that it would happen under both Windows and Ubuntu. I started suspecting the power supply and continued to unplug devices like wireless cards until I couldn't go any further. I then called Dell and found out that my GX260 was known to have bad capacitors. I was able to identify them by the buldge.
<br><br>24 hours later, I'm running Ubuntu without a hitch.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Drake</b> <<a href="mailto:dan@dandrake.org">dan@dandrake.org</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm running Ubuntu and for some time now, I've had a big problem with it<br>locking up. The machine simply won't run for more than 8-10 hours
<br>without locking up. It just freezes, completely, and there's nothing in<br>the logs to suggest what went wrong.<br><br>Sometimes it locks up after a little while, sometimes it goes all day.<br>This has been happening since summer and all this month, so heat is not
<br>a problem.<br><br>It seemed like a memory problem, but I ran memtest86 overnight (about 40<br>passes total) and it showed no errors. So it seems like a kernel bug, or<br>a problem with the motherboard. Any suggestions on how to track down the
<br>problem?<br><br>I upgraded to Edgy Eft, since that has a new kernel, but an hour<br>after getting that going, it locked up just like before.<br><br>This is very irritating. I use a Windows machine sometimes at work and
<br>it's very depressing to see it run continuously for a week or more with<br>no problems while my Linux box crashes about once a day!<br><br>Here's some specs:<br><br> MSI KM3M-V motherboard<br> Sempron 1.75GHz cpu<br>
2 512MB sticks of Crucial RAM<br><br>Suggestions for how to track down the problem? Thanks.<br><br>Dan<br><br>--<br>Ceci n'est pas une .signature.<br><br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
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