What is the problem with my linux
 

First, please understand my poor English

I'm using linux mint as a torrent machine all day long

while it was running, it was just shut down and display this log

Kernel panic - not syncing : Fatal exception in interrupt
Shutting down cpus with NMI
drm_kms_helper : panic occurred, switching back to text console

And my hardware spec
M/B : ASUS Q1900-ITX
CPU : Atom J1900
RAM : SAMSUNG DDR3 SO-Dimm 2GB

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Hi & Welcome to Linux Questions.

I am not a kernel panic expert.

If your Linux machine is giving you trouble or performance problems you will have to provide more information about your machine for a member to be able to diagnose what is going on.

Is this machine a Desktop or a laptop?
What version of Linux Mint are you running?
The current is 'Mint 17'


You can try a few things.
Try booting with a boot disk (Live CD)

To make troubleshooting easier, ensure that the kernel is not in quiet mode. Remove 'quiet' from the kernel line in GRUB, if it is found there. If you edit the kernel line or pass a parameter to the kernel incorrectly your machine may boot to a black screen

***Best to wait for an experienced member-:)

You can learn from this article here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics

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my computer is desktop and linux mint 17 Cinnamon 32bit

Thanks for your reply!!!

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my computer is desktop and linux mint 17 Cinnamon 32bit

Thanks for your reply!!!

Your Welcome-

What brand is your Desktop? A Dell? Gateway? HP? -:(exact model please):-

I could not find the specifications for your mobo ASUS Q1900-ITX-

The only thing Google gave me was an As Rock Q1900-ITX-
Are you sure on your mobo?

Do you have the Live Linux Mint CD/DVD? (Or) .iso image on a usb stick?

Non-brand PC

i just assembled it. my mistake, you are right. it's AsRock

i installed linux mint with USB, using universal-usb-installer and i still have it.

I think I found your mobo-

Is this it?
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900...Specifications

If this is the correct board is Linux Mint the only operating system on your machine?

Glad you still have Linux Mint on a usb stick. That will come in handy in a while.

That's my M/B exactly. Linux mint is only one OS on my machine

Great!

Ok, like I said I am not a kernel panic expert but I will help you with what I can until a more experienced member chimes in Maybe a Linux Mint member will chime in-

Is all that you have now is a screen that says:
Can you open the termianal?

If not you might have to hold down Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart the computer.
Upon doing so you will have to hold down the appropriate key to get into your BIOS to boot to that usb stick with Mint on it. Unless you already have your machine set to boot to usb

Unfortunately, i'm not home now so i can't use my machine.

BUT if you teach me what to do now, i'm going to do that at home later

I can set USB booting mode

Open the terminal and run this command:
It will provide a lot of output. Post the output here on the forum so we can read it.
If there are any Warnings or Errors it will show in that output.

After you copy all of the output in the terminal click on the pound sign (#) and paste the output in between the code tags. (It's a few icons over to the right of the smiley face.)

I will do it at home later

I don't know whether you will reply or not, i appreciate your help and kindness sincerely despite of my poor English

Thank You; laubana-

Be back tomorrow:-

I would assume that the NMI portion is non-maskable interrupt. Which brings me back to the old assembler + dos days. Kernel panics can be a variety of things. Bad RAM is likely if it's seemingly RANDOM when you get them. If it's a little more predictable, it could be running out of RAM, or overheating. If you're using a non-default kernel, like a real-time one you might try the safe bets and see if that solves the issue.

The DRM error is not rights management, but Direct Rendering related so it could be a video driver issue. Or faulty hardware with regards to the video card and/or the RAM on it. If you don't need the video extras you might try using the VESA driver and see if that solves the issue, or to narrow down the causing factor. I'm not currently familiar with, but there probably is a CLI based torrent client, which is another option to bypass video related issues.

If you're using safe bets and with the correct and current video driver. Then having and using SWAP might help. Otherwise I'd be inclined to think that you have hardware issues. Check your firmware version for your motherboard and see if there's an update and other potential fixes to known problems.

The kernel panic message is the "I give up" message. The cause of the problem may be shown in the error messages just before the kernel panic message.

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Steve Stites

Si.ce it's a cpu issue have you tried removing fan & reapplying thermal paste? Most likely yours came with thermal paste pad but even those go bad if you don't seat it square causing you to have to reposition during installation.

How are things now; laubana?

You could run Memtest overnight and see if the RAM is bad.
http://www.memtest.org/

Like shadow_7 mentioned a BIOS update for your AS Rock mobo might help.