Hmmm.......did my reply to Drew go to just him?<br><br>This gmail sort-by-subject thing can get weird.<br><br>Anyway, I wanted to make sure my symptoms were included in this as well, so here it is:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
Great thread.<br><br>I've been having intermittent lockups on my machine since I installed UbuntuStudio on it about 8 months ago.<br><br>Started on Hardy. Now on Intrepid.<br><br>It took me so long to get Compiz working with my Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 that I don't want to even think about moving to Jaunty.<br>
<br>I've ran memtest at least 3 times now with no errors being returned
each time. I used to think it had something to do with a screensaver
(and the nvidia driver) but I don't think that's the case. I've been
sitting in front of it while it's happened and it usually goes like
this:<ol><li> usually Firefox dies (last night it happened when I viewed a myspace page so it almost seems like a Flash issue)</li><li> the screen goes blank (black) </li><li> my mouse cursor turns into the spinning cursor although I can still move it for a few seconds (10-15 or so seconds, I'd say)</li>
<li> finally, a 100% freeze although I can still see my router/hub blinking so it looks like there is network activity</li></ol>Then I have to do a hard restart.<br><br>Funny thing as sometimes it won't happen for a couple of weeks and I'll think, "Sweet! It's fixed!"<br>
<br>Then it'll happen twice in a day. Can't imagine that it's good for the hard drive with all these hard restarts.<br><br>I have a mac laptop sitting nearby though. I'll try the ssh bit when it happens and maybe I can figure something out.<br>
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