Johannes Christian wrote:
I think you should press CTRL+ALT+F1 rather than power button. It will show you a login screen. Just log in and see some error raised in error message.
Good advice, but if his box is really frozen it will ignore his request to switch to a virtual console. Why not switch there before it dies and wait until it dies to see if there are any panics or other diagnostics shown.
Also X drivers are common causes of freezeups. Try using the "vesa" driver instead of whatever is used currently in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see if that makes a difference.
-Andy
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