On Friday 16 Sep 2005 23:08, Kshitij Velhal wrote: <SNIP> I have a system with an nVidia card which would freeze unpredictably. It would happen in similar circumstances to yours. I noticed that the running apps continued to run - a CD would complete ripping, downloads would continue, etc. even though the display was frozen and the mouse and keyboard were unresponsive. I could ssh to the box and shut it down but changing to runlevel 3 did not result in a text console showing on the monitor. There was nothing in any logs I could find, but I came to realise that it occured at times when several windows were updating at the same time so I figure there was something causing the display card to have a fit. After reverting to the generic nv module the problem disapeared. Don't know if that's relevant. Dylan -- "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." (Chinese Proverb)