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Rafael [Visitor] — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:56:02 +0000

And what about chipset temperatures?
I own a computer which hangs every time I'm playing a high resolution movie or running any cpu intensive task. Watching the temperatures I noticed that the hangups occurre because the chipset becomes too hot. It's very hard to notice because the temperatures are ok most of the time and when they become high the system hangs, the only way to see it is if you keep a log of the temperatures.

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Jeremy Olexa [Visitor] — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:21:28 +0000

"I hate troubleshooting hardware. It gets expensive real fast."

That is how I ended up with my 2nd desktop awhile back. Kept replacing stuff until I only needed one part (the broken one) for my "new" desktop. sigh..

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pille [Visitor] — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:17:51 +0000

whenever I noticed random hangups, it was mostly because of broken memory. try running memtest86+ for some time.

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Jochen [Visitor] — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:15:47 +0000

Hi,

peak voltages can be the cause for such random, erratic hangups. There are special power outlet filters (check your local electronics dealer, probably radio shack in the US?) that smooth such peak voltages or you could buy an UPS (uninterruptible power source) and have the added benefit of no power losses.

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Josh Saddler [Member] — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:57:03 +0000

@Marius:

No, I hadn't thought of that. I'll try it out. So far I've tried the latest hardmasked binary driver, and it doesn't make any difference.

Also tried switching NICs; no joy.

There's further graphical corruption during the early boot stages; I can't even reach the grub screen now. It just loads Gentoo without giving me access to the selection screen. Lots of sparklies and other artifacts on the screen.

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Marius Mauch [Member] — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:03:19 +0000

Tried using the nv drivers instead of the nvidia one? That has helped me a few times already.
Even if it's not a permanent solution it might help to isolate the problem.