[SOLVED] my computer freezes!!!

kiruja · 01-14-2011, 12:43 PM

i have a desktop that keeps on freezing and i formatted it and installed linux but it still freezes!! i have tried changing the RAM and checking if the hard disk has spoilt sectors but they are all ok!! what might be wrong because the desktop still freezes!!

Cultist · 01-14-2011, 12:49 PM

you mean it freezes when you actually start the desktop, not before?

What distro are you using? And what desktop environment? (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, Enlightenment, etc)

TobiSGD · 01-14-2011, 12:55 PM

In my expereince freezes are mostly caused by faulty PSUs. Does your desktop freeze when it is heavily loaded?

j0nn0 · 01-14-2011, 03:11 PM

The other culprit could be heat-related. Possibly either your CPU fan has stopped working, or the case fan may be allowing the mobo to get too hot. If the video card has fans, check that they are spinning correctly.

Cultist · 01-15-2011, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by j0nn0

The other culprit could be heat-related. Possibly either your CPU fan has stopped working, or the case fan may be allowing the mobo to get too hot. If the video card has fans, check that they are spinning correctly.

most computers will automatically shut down at boot if the cpu fan goes out I think. My desktop did last time its fan broke

H_TeXMeX_H · 01-15-2011, 11:21 AM

Check the logs at the time of the crash '/var/log/' syslog, messages. Run memtest.

hughetorrance · 01-15-2011, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by kiruja

i have a desktop that keeps on freezing and i formatted it and installed linux but it still freezes!! i have tried changing the RAM and checking if the hard disk has spoilt sectors but they are all ok!! what might be wrong because the desktop still freezes!!

Did you check the installation media for errors... ???

business_kid · 01-17-2011, 10:31 AM

Other things that cause freezes are scripts & errors. a script calls wget but you are left sitting for dns.
Your disk writes, but the write craps out.It draws a deep breadth, throws a reset, waits for everything to calm down, but it needs to write before anything else goes into memory, and logs are building up

Try this: run 'top' in a terminal you can switch to with keyboard input. When you freeze, switch to it, and see what's grabbing resources.

linus72 · 01-17-2011, 10:42 AM

My HP Pavillion a810n amd athlon64 with sis integrated graphics always freezes unless I use the vesa driver.
This is across all distros. Probably not your problem but another reason why it could be freezing.

kiruja · 01-18-2011, 03:19 AM

i actualy solved the problem by setting the cmos clock in the BIOS to default!!! all things are ok!!!
i thank Everybody who has tried helping me and also who read this thread