On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:12 AM, François Cami wrote: > Just out of curiosity: > * what is your video card? (as reported by lspci) It's a Nvidia 9600GT that has worked on a different motherboard for a year. I'm using the Nvidia drivers so nouveau is already blacklisted so the proprietary driver can load. > * could you please boot with the "nomodeset" option and see if it fixes it? > * could you also try a 2.6.32 from Koji? They are not production-ready, but seem > to fix a random crash I encountered twice, possibly related to firefox. I can try these. I am suspecting that it is disk writes that are causing the problem, maybe with some kind of shared IRQ issue, because I can watch prerecorded HD video, reading from the disk for hours and sending it to the video card, with no problem, but starting yum and downloading info from the repos or reencoding video can lock it right up. This is an AMD 770 chipset based board. Maybe there are some improvements in 2.6.32 for that chipset. Mark -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines