Video and Audio = Hangs

[ismail bushra]

This is happend to me also this afternoon when I connect my flash memory to
got from it pdf file, I saw a vedio file i try to open the file and
the gnome hangup, shif to virtual consoles and reboot

On 2/28/07, Chris Rouch <chris.rouch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/28/07, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/28/07, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello people,
> > >
> > > I had some hangs with my computer and after a bit of testings I was
> > > able to reproduce it always.
> > >
> > > If I'm playing music and I try to use the Video card extensively
> > > (moving Page Up and Down in Evince - this makes my CPU go to 100%) the
> > > system hangs. It doesn't matter if I'm in X11 or console (mplayer
> > > playing music and pdftotext rendering also hangs)
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > > Any clues to perform more tests?
>
> My system used to hang when it got very busy. Turned out the CPU was
> overheating. There was nothing in the logs, and the lm_sensors weren't
> showing anything unusual, but a dab of thermal paste made the hangs go
> away. The other thing I'd check is memory - run memtest86 overnight
> and see what it turns up. I would expect a system hang (as opposed to
> a crash) to be hardware related 9 times out of 10.
>
> Chris
>
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