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Random computer crashes

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-06 15:26

Around a month ago I got fed up with the lousy state of the ATI drivers for linux, and went out as bought a used nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX. I then upgraded my kernel and all was fine and dandy... for a while.

After around a day both my monitors suddenly went blank for around 3 seconds before the computer suddenly rebooted. It has happened at random intervals ever since, and in all but one of the cases any music I've been listening to has disappeared too, and in the one case it didn't the last 0.1 seconds or thereabouts kept repeating until it rebooted.

/var/log/messages and the Xorg logs are both blank, I've since downgraded both the kernel and the nvidia-drivers with two different compilers, didn't help, memtest86 is clean, and a stress-test revealed nothing on the PSU whose specs are already more than adequate.

Is there anything left to try before assuming the card is flawed?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-09 19:25

if you're not sure if it's the card, you could test the stability with a livecd (to be sure that there isn't any software conflict in your installation).

are there any new (since you changed the card) startup errors/warnings in your logs? (not only from your graphic HW/SW, since there might be another conflict. also check the boot time)

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