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Re: [LUG] Crashing Computer

 

peter wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have my son in laws old computer (with quite a good spec) running
> Window$ which keeps on crashing after about an hour. I asked before here
> and I think we settled for heat problems, but then it would only last 15
> mins max. (I have reset a lot of BIOS stuff - and its winter!).
>   
Does it crash under load or just sitting idle?  If it's only under load 
it *could* be a memory problem with a bad chip being accessed which the 
PC doesn't need when idle.
> I have booted it up with an old Ubuntu live CD (can not remove windoze
> (not my computer - yet)).  This will help to discover if the problem is
> Windows related (It crashed on Linux previously) .
Does it still crash under Ubunbtu?

Kind regards,

Julian

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