Bad video card?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Leon Goldstein <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Tim Wunder wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Brings up a good point: are there any Linux utilities that test video RAM?
>  I remember (I think) my old Paradise cards had a diagnostic app that ran in
> DOS.

No, there aren't any that are publicly available.


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