Excuse the sounding bitter

Archangel · Post by **Archangel** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:04 am

Well, since you had a freeze in that short of period, I'd start looking at parts now........mobo, psu or memory.......

What about virus??? did you try an online virus scanner such as Karpinsky?

IIO · Post by **IIO** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:18 pm

Arch, on linux i do not need antivirus.

read this:
Feature: Security
Note to new Linux users: No antivirus needed

Archangel · Post by **Archangel** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:07 pm

IIO wrote:Arch, on linux i do not need antivirus.

read this:
Feature: Security
Note to new Linux users: No antivirus needed

Well, this says otherwise.........

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/51 ... 34641.html

IIO · Post by **IIO** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:39 pm

For more information :D
Linux malware
from wikipedia.

1) I use only official repositories, and sometime someone with pgpkey, and i control ever md5sum string for other software.

2) I use Firefox with noscript extension

3) Ubuntu use an application, developed by Novell, called AppArmor, and if you want to be paranoid :D , u can set SElinux (but do not use

)

4) I use antirootkit scanners

5) And it's also true, every vulnerability discovered on Linux kernel or other part of any Gnu/Linux distribution (no operating system and no software is perfect

) , are correct or patched quickly

6) I change the root password often enough

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Update: Today i removed the CD/DVD recorder (that is on channel EIDE i wanted to leave active) and i received a "disk boot failed" when i reboot

,... obviously in bios as the first boot device i gave the Hard disk.

At this point i think we only that it is precisely the motherboard or to limit the BIOS (not to speak of this disk, that the test has passed, but ... has more than 5 years).
So these days if i should try to restore boot partition, or re-install all, for the umpteenth time, otherwise continue to move forward with Ubuntu live CD (it's from here that i am writing at this time) until the last the first attempt to change some parts of PC, which will be installing the new version of Ubuntu on the new disk.

hwsb · Post by **hwsb** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:44 am

IIO wrote:At this point boys and girls, drop the overheating, because yesterday (with the case open) had a freeze after 5 minutes of play.

iio, i know you said you don't think it's heat, so i apologize if this has been covered already in the thread: have you checked the heatsink on your video card? if it's the stock heatsink, perhaps it came loose?

IIO · Post by **IIO** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:03 am

mhhh mmm hswb, it's integrated graphic card, then throughout the summer has given me no problems, and lately i had freezes after 5 min and after 4-5 hours.
I was only a hypothesis, but when i had a freeze after 5 min ...

I am also taking into consideration of changing the motherboard, maybe another one with integrated GeForce 9400 :D :D , if support AMD processors ; but first i want to see how the system behaves, when in less than a week the new Ubuntu installer (8.10) on Seagate.

hwsb · Post by **hwsb** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:04 pm

IIO wrote:mhhh mmm hswb, it's integrated graphic card, then throughout the summer has given me no problems, and lately i had freezes after 5 min and after 4-5 hours.
I was only a hypothesis, but when i had a freeze after 5 min ...

I am also taking into consideration of changing the motherboard, maybe another one with integrated GeForce 9400 :D :D , if support AMD processors ; but first i want to see how the system behaves, when in less than a week the new Ubuntu installer (8.10) on Seagate.

since it's onboard video, is there a cheap video card laying around you can put in your machine, to see if you still get the crash? maybe borrow one from a friend?

IIO · Post by **IIO** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:45 pm

Here's something that i had i had not considered that, thanks

Hardly any friend i will give your video card, perhaps one or two of them, which are the only fans of computers, i know.

Archangel · Post by **Archangel** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:09 pm

On-board graphics have always sucked.........you need to bite the bullet and get a decent video card and upgrade your PSU to at least 750w name brand. Don't get a off brand PSU as the voltage rails are usually junk and can't handle everything.

IIO · Post by **IIO** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:37 am

:D my PSU:

Tagan 700W Dual Engine Series with Dual fan

With its “Dual Transformer Technology (DTT)” based on
a dual-transformer layout instead of a single-transfor-
mer one, Tagan assures that, even under high load,the
output currents of all rails will remain stable.

Four PCI Express connectors

Effi ciency above 80%

etc etc

and quote myself

IIO wrote: I have Tagan dual engine U-25 700 W ( i know it's overpowered for my system, but i had bought thinking that i would soon be changed PC )