Many PC's today have diagnostic utility built in. When you first boot your PC there might be a key combo you can press to go into diagnostic mode. When I start having lockups I ran a check on my system and all my hardware checked OK.
Also I would remove the graphic card and blow out the slot, clean the contacts and reseat the card.
Just one quick update on my lockup. It's been over 2 weeks now so I am thinking what ever my problem was it seems to have gone away. Have done a kernel update so maybe that was the problem.
Information on my Main laptop. Information on my small laptop Dell 11 3000
Using a Asus 3632QM laptop with 8gig RAM, 250 SSD.
Machine Registered 366271, 366273, 366275.
Registered Ubuntu user number 18630. Registered Linux user number 458093.
Believe it or not, graphics cards can crap out! I had that happen on the video card that came on my grandson's HP Pavilion, of course after the warranty expired. Replaced it with a new Nvida card. Quite a few years ago when building my older computer, the graphics card that I bought had a capacitor fall off as I picked it up! You know what happens. This is why I suggested borrowing someone else's graphic card and trying it out if possible.
I did disassemble my graphics card, clean it up and re-seat it.
I'm now waiting to see if it's still gonna be a problem. In the meantime I have to get some sort of conky going. I am also giving amdcccle another go in case it's a driver related thing.
The graphics card looked dusty, but fairly healthy(no blown caps or scorch marks).
I will continue to investigate this strange phenomenon !
I think this is going to be my last post here seeing it been about 3 weeks + since my last lockup. Everything is really running great now.
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Information on my Main laptop. Information on my small laptop Dell 11 3000
Using a Asus 3632QM laptop with 8gig RAM, 250 SSD.
Machine Registered 366271, 366273, 366275.
Registered Ubuntu user number 18630. Registered Linux user number 458093.
Thanks for your help Irv, especially for drawing my attention to (sudo shutdown -r now)thats been a great help. Something seems to have happened here as well since I too am getting fewer lockups of late.
I'm now concentrating on getting a respectable conky installed, maybe our paths will cross again.
Be good!
There may be hardware failure. I also had unusual behavior like yours and finally found my RAM was faulty. After replacing the same I found the problem was solved
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