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[Miha Radej <miha.radej@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Peter pravi:
> I have a bit  of a problem.  For some while now I have been having some
> trouble with my system freezing up for no apparent reason.  My
> impression is that it always happened within one hour of booting, but I
> may be wrong.  It has been happening at irregular intervals over the
> last few months.  The system was locked so solid that the only solution
> was to switch the machine off at the wall and reboot.
> 
> Now, however, I cannot even reach the login screen.  The system appears
> to boot into run level 5 OK and everything works as expected with no
> unexpected messages during the boot sequence, but the system locks up
> now on the welcome screen, before the login screen appears.  This
> follows several attempted reboots where it locked up actually on the
> login screen.  So it's freezing earlier and earlier.
> 
> Has anyone come across this before, or have any idea what might be
> happening?

Something similair happened to me about a month or so ago. In my
specific case memtest was also behaving strangely (the options screen
was popping up).

You might want to try booting with a live CD. If that works and you have
any important data on your disks you might want to back them up.

As for my case, the motherboard was deciding to die on me - some of the
capacitors were bloated and looked rusty. It works like a charm after a
replacement. So just as a precaution you might want to check your
hardware also. Although if Windows runs fine there may be nothing wrong
with it.

Regards,
Miha

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primitive tribes with more sophisticated weapons."
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