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rubin85
July 3rd, 2008, 01:11 AM
So the first time, I left the computer alone and didn't even have any applications running other than emesene, cairo dock, and maybe amarok. I came back and the comp was frozen and these horizontal bars covered the cursor and the entire cairo dock area. I turned the comp off, left it for 5-10 minutes and restarted without any problems.

Next time, a few hours later, I left the comp running with the same applications. and again it froze but this time there was horizontal lines across the cursor, not cairo. (See pic, sorry bout the ****** phone cam quality)

http://www.uploadimage.org/images/vxxlvnushk94p2jthih.jpg

I turned it off, waited and restarted, at the ubuntu splash loading screen, there was some kind of check and the % was counted down in the bottom right corner, then it just froze (I think it finally reached 100%).

I turned it off, waited even longer, restarted and now during the splash screen there were red horizontal lines everywhere and the screen was flickering.

http://www.uploadimage.org/images/hg4349uqyys0ckxytvn5.jpg

I turned it off again, waited even longer than before, and it started fine without problems.

It occasionally freezes with no particular symptoms. Sometimes the screen flickers when viewing a full screen streaming video (Like watching allsp fullscreen). This is the first time I saw these horizontal lines.

I'm using ubuntu 8.04 on an Thinkpad R60 w/ a Radeon x1400 graphics card (If this problem is related to the card)

solarghost
July 3rd, 2008, 01:16 AM
The fact that you switch of the computer and wait a while and then it works sugests that your laptop is over heating. Can you check the temperature in your bios?

rubin85
July 3rd, 2008, 01:33 AM
well it just did it again. horizontal over the cursor, restart, horizontal all over the splash, but it was able to load all the way, and didnt crash

I will monitor the cpu temp and post it. is there a program that logs the temp over time??

thanx a lot

solarghost
July 3rd, 2008, 02:15 AM
Not to sure if there is one or not. Google it. However I think because of the graphics messing up, it would more likely be your Graphics card that is overheating. When you start your laptop again press CTRL+ALT+F1 this will take you to a console see if when you play around in the console for a while without it crashing (to get back to the Graphical Interface press CTRL+ALT+F6)

rubin85
July 3rd, 2008, 12:50 PM
well I've been monitoring the GPU and 2 CPU temps using computertemp and I see that the gpu gets quite hot. I'm still not sure what the operating temp is because I can't find it on the internet, but I'm quite sure its the one thats too high. Last night it reached 71 deg C before crashing. Does anyone know the operating temp range for an ATI Radeon X1400????

Does anyone know a good fan control program for ubuntu?? I know this is easily accomplished through windows