Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:10 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: >> I'll try the kill X next time, but last time I did that it >> seemed to corrupt my boot partition and I had to use a rescue disk. > > That sounds like there's something seriously screwy with your system if > killing X can screw up a partition that's not even being used (boot is > practically ignored, once you've booted up). > >> TBH, my system is getting increasingly unstable (1 hard lock up per >> day). I'm going to try and memtest, see how it gets on with a couple >> of hours unreal tournament in windows to check the hardware, and if >> that doesn't work I'll try upgrading to F11. If that doesn't work, new >> re-install time, but I've not really got the time for that. > > Check cooling (stuck fans, blocked fans, heatsinks full of dust, > heatsinks not well attached to hot parts). > > Check the power supply (harder to do if you're non-technical), and that > it's adequate for your hardware. If you've been adding things, you may > have added too much. > > You could have flakey hardware, or flakey drivers for specific hardware. > You could leave the computer running in run level 3, doing some hard > work, to try and eliminate the graphics hardware. > I'm going to check the cooling tonight. I'm running an old nvidia FX5200 card with the legacy nvidia drivers. Thanks for the suggestions, James -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
