Bad video card?

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 29 November 2008 08:09:54 pm Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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?
>

It gets pretty hot, but it has only a heat sink, so there is no fan to have 
gone bad on it. Cas fans work fine.

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

Nothing of note in /var/log/messages. My wife's X-session locked up this 
morning, but I can get into X via FreeNX. Looks like I'm picking up a video 
card today. 

Thanks, 
Tim



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