Re: [LUG] crashing computer

 
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 20:39 +0100, John Bowden wrote: 
> On Wednesday 04 Jul 2012 19:47:49 aaron moore wrote: 
> > Hi all. 
> >  My main compter is an acer aspire tower. It dual boots Ubuntu and Windows, 
> > however when I run Ubuntu it completely freezes and the only way to turn 
> > it off is with the power button ( windows runs fine). On a fresh install 
> > it works well for a while then it starts to freeze quit randomly at first 
> > and then regularly right after it boots up. I have tried debian and the 
> > same thing happens. I have disconnecting the internet, ditto, and googled 
> > for similar problems but to no avail. Can anyone suggest a way to diagnose 
> > the problem please. 
> > 
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> Don't use Ubuntu, so I don't know if their installation disk includes any 
> hardware detection progs, but dl a copy of Mageia and at the grub screen 
> select memtest and run it, if it shows errors theres your problem, if it does 
> not show any errors after doing a complete run, leave it to run over night to 
> make sure. 
> If Ubuntu will finish booting run the command dmesg in a terminal as root/sudo, 
> and copy /past it into an email for the list. 
> Regards John (Led43) 
> -- 
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> 

My thoughts are that the disk is failing some how. 

does the PC run from a bootable CD? with Mageia for a long period? 

if so its not the Ram or CPU 


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