Bad video card?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> Over the past day or so, I've been experiencing lock-ups on my main PC. They
> appear to be video card related. My system hardware has been unchanged for
> nearly 2 years and I'm on FC6 (yes, that's a 6).
> The video card is Biostar 7300GT, PCI-E card with DVI and VGA connectors on
> it.
>
> I could get the lockup pretty consistently by simply running glxgears. The
> lockups would be anything from just X freezing to the entire system freezing
> (unable to ssh to the box).
>
> This morning I replaced the nvidia driver with the nv driver and so far the
> system is fine (about an hour).
>
> I'm inclined to think the video card is toast, but was wondering what other
> tests I could do to verify that.

If there have been no software changes, then it must be hardware.  You
sure that its not overheating?  Have you cleaned out dust from inside
the case lately?

Also wouldn't hurt to check logs to see if there's anything ominous.



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