I'm having a problem with my home Ubuntu 13.04 installation.
It completely locks up at random times. And when I say completely, I mean completely. No keyboard, no mouse, nothing. And sometimes the screen gets these diagonal lines on it.
The only way I've been able to fix it thus far is to do a hard reboot. I installed Gnome (3.8, I think) but that hasn't really helped any.
But since it's random (usually happens, though, if I try to open too many tabs at once in FireFox, or if I try to access an app through Dash in unity) I can't really predict when it's going to happen.
I have a lot of data and apps on that machine, so I really don't want to have to do a clean reinstall.
Anybody got any suggestions? I've Googled around for a fix, but not even the Ubuntu forums seem to help.
It's a custom built machine, running 2 GB of RAM, an AMD 2.8 GHz processor, FoxConn Motherboard, and a re-purposed video card (took it out of an older HP).
It completely locks up at random times. And when I say completely, I mean completely. No keyboard, no mouse, nothing. And sometimes the screen gets these diagonal lines on it.
The only way I've been able to fix it thus far is to do a hard reboot. I installed Gnome (3.8, I think) but that hasn't really helped any.
But since it's random (usually happens, though, if I try to open too many tabs at once in FireFox, or if I try to access an app through Dash in unity) I can't really predict when it's going to happen.
I have a lot of data and apps on that machine, so I really don't want to have to do a clean reinstall.
Anybody got any suggestions? I've Googled around for a fix, but not even the Ubuntu forums seem to help.
It's a custom built machine, running 2 GB of RAM, an AMD 2.8 GHz processor, FoxConn Motherboard, and a re-purposed video card (took it out of an older HP).
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