Do you mean freeze completely, or the mouse freezes? The mouse on Both of my Debian machines has been freezing randomly for about a week. I've been in the middle of upgrading stuff and they're both now on etch. I also noticed that the Nvidia console would crash when I tried to look a the glx settings. Just now, I removed the Busid line from the display devices configuration in xorg.conf. The nvidia console doesn't crash now. I have to admit that I didn't re-enable it to make sure that was the problem. Only time will tell whether this fixes it.

The entire thing freezes, no ctrl-alt-bckspace. I have conky running so I can see if its something with the hardware. That freezes. Barley 15% of my memory is being used and not even 5% of my cpu is being used when it crashes. I let memtest run again this time for 3 hours and it didn't find any errors.

Its probably a driver thing. Is there a way to watch what is loaded live?

To see all currently running processes, type in terminal:

ps -u username

Exchange "username" with the user name of the account you are logged into.

http://www.cs.dal.ca/studentservices...Management.php

For memory stats/usage:
Type $top

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/KB/AdminAproc2

My friend Google showed me these links. He's very friendly, I believe he is your friend too.

You shouldn't clean your computer by using a vacuum cleaner.

Why not? And I used canned air to get the small spots.

merchtemeagle speaks the gospel.

First rule in computer repair:

Wear anti-static wrist strap, or place computer on anti-static pad, avoid ESD (electro static discharge) at all cost. One littles zap can render a computer's circuitry useless. Basically, in a nut shell, static electricity is extremely harmful and the damage usually can not be un-done, the computer may not start, may start but will not work properly.

Vacuums create excessively high levels of ESD

Compressed air from a can, or from compressor with filters, are recommended, alcohol or alcohol based cleaners are not recommended as some of these types of cleaners leave residue behind that can cause a short circuit, especially in a 64 bit world where wires/tracing on mainboards/circuit boards have doubled in numbers in certain areas making them smaller & closer together.

I think that I've read in the past that a bad CD/DVD drive can indeed lock up your system. Since it doesn't work anyway no reason not to remove it (both IDE/SATA and power cable).

Also have you trying going to a terminal screen (CTRL+ALT+F1) to see if you can log in that way? If you can, run "top" and see if any process is hogging up your resources. "ps aux" can also let you check for zombie processes. CTRL+ALT+F7 will get you back to your GUI by the way.

Lastly, if you have another machine available, try to ping your frozen box. A reply means it's not completely dead. Then try ssh'ing (or telneting) in to try the top & ps aux.

Well..the drive isn't compleatly dead. It works, ut if it doesn't read a perfectly clean disc..I just keep ejecting it and re putting it in and it'll read it eventually. I'll try the ping thing and the terminal.

It also could be power supply related. I'll admit I haven't read through every single post here so this may have already been stated, however a bad or failing power supply could cause problems such as this (I've had my share of this as a problem before)

Its not the power supply because windows works fine. I have a feeling its a driver issue, I just need to figure out which driver. I tried the CTRL-ALT-F1 and that didn't work at all.