Lockups can come from bad memory, so I would recommend you run memtest86 before anything else. Sometimes you have to let it go for a couple days before it finds anything. A non destructive drive test like DFT wouldn't be a bad idea either.
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From: John Aldrich
Date:02/20/2014 05:42 (GMT-06:00)
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: HELP! System keeps locking up
Hello, all...
I'm running Fedora 20 on a homebrew PC It's an AMD Athlon X2 processor with an
on-board nVidia display chipset.
This is a fresh install of F20, pretty much up to date. I had to do a fresh
install since I mangled the upgrade from F18.
Every once in awhile, mainly when I'm trying to unlock the screen, the system
will freeze up. My display is a black background with "bits" of color in a
diagonal pattern.
I say "mainly when trying to unlock the screen" because I had it happen to me
this morning (third time in 24 hours) when I was thinking of trying a different
screen saver (been using Moebius Gears) on the thought that maybe the Noveau
driver doesn't like the GL screen saver for some reason.
Every time this happens I have to use the reset button on my system. This
morning when it happened, I had an SSH window from another PC logged in and it
was frozen as well.
I have checked /var/log/messages and there is nothing in there that would
indicate a problem. There was hardly anything in there since about 8PM last
night and it's locked up twice since then.
Suggestions/thoughts/theories???
I'm running XFCE, if it matters, but still using parts of KDE as well.
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