Natty crashes to black screen

**omaralqady** · August 16th, 2011

I have had Natty installed for sometime now, and this happened once or twice before where it crashes all of a sudden to a black screen with some text on it, but I don't think there is anything particularly useful in the text. The problem is, in the last couple of days this has happened quite a few times, which shows that something is wrong, but I don't know what it is or how to find out, so if any one can help me I'd appreciate it

My Computer's Specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom X6 1090T 3.2 GHz
RAM: 8 GB
MB: Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H

**halfpower** · August 16th, 2011

Have you tried hitting Ctrl+Alt+F6 or Ctrl+Alt+F5? That normally brings up a command line login screen, which, if it works, would make trouble shooting a lot easier.

EDIT: To get back to the desktop hit Ctrl+Alt+F7.

**omaralqady** · August 16th, 2011

Yes, I did try that, and unfortunately it does not work :S Do you have any other ideas I could try? Or maybe you know if I should check the logs for something specific?

**kmsalex** · August 16th, 2011

If i had to guess i'd say its your video diver (but that relay is just my best guess) i assum you've got some fancy video card in the box if you've got a Phenom and 8gb of ram

. Have you tryed disabling/trying other drivers? Is there normally something your doing each time it crashes? and the text you get may just be more helpful then you think.

**omaralqady** · August 16th, 2011

Actually no

I'm using the on-board graphics card

I don't really need a high end graphics card, the high specs are just because I use virtual machines, and from what I know the number of CPU cores is one of the most important things for virtualization

But I digress

, do you have any other ideas as to what might be causing this??

**omaralqady** · August 19th, 2011

Doesn't any one have any other ideas? I hope someone does because this thing is becoming a problem for me :S Please help

**green0eggs** · September 14th, 2011

I think I have this problem too.
It's happened a couple of times just seemingly out of the blue.

I've attached a photo of what I see. I also have a couple more and the messages are different each time.

Also, I think this chap is having the same trouble.

**green0eggs** · September 14th, 2011

It just happened again!
I was in the middle of a fairly hefty file operation (copying to NTFS external hdd) both this time and an hour ago when I made the post above.

I also have an AMD processor (?).

**omaralqady** · September 14th, 2011

The messages that appear on your screen do appear quite similar to the ones that I see when this happens, but that other thread you mentioned is about a problem that happens when the poster tries to suspend his PC(although the image of his messages is also similar to ours!), while what happens with you and myself is that the crash occurs when we're using the computer not suspending it.

As to your second post, I did not notice whether this usually happens when a heavy operation was going on or not, but the last couple of times, there was definitely no heavy operations going on at all, I was just browsing the web.

The fact that you also have an AMD processor might be relevant I guess, but I'm not sure how we can find out! Do you have any idea how we can find out if this is processor related or not?