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   From: odie    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: unidentified random boot problem.   
   Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:48:55 +0100   
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   MCR wrote:   
   > MCR wrote:   
   >> Hi,   
   >> Randomly when I boot Ubuntu I get to the splash screen (with the    
   >> moving bar) and the computer freezes.  Other times the computer with    
   >> go straight to the desktop, other times the bar will move and it will    
   >> boot 'normally'.  I don't boot too often, but it is annoying to wait    
   >> for the post beep, I get SATA splash screens and then Grub.   
   >>   
   >> Trying to trace the problem I do notice that I get a 3 or 4 errors to    
   >> do with the graphics card before Grub, sometimes it will stay on the    
   >> error part for a 'flash' and it wont boot, other times I can read the    
   >> errors for some time and then the Ubuntu splash screen will load as    
   >> normal.   
   >>   
   >> The errors are in the form of memory address locations.  I have a PCIe    
   >> Nvidia gfx card.   
   >>   
   >> Any ideas?   
   >    
   > Sorry to follow up to my own post but I think I should mention the PCI    
   > errors appear long enough to glimpse the error, but not long enough to    
   > jot down the error numbers.   
   >    
   > Also could this be due to me overclocking the FSB?   
   >    
   Well, you could test that of course :-). Simply try to run the computer    
   in "normal" mode instead of overclocked and see if the errors remain.   
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