Re: Diagnosing lockups
Charlie Gibbs composed on 2019-09-26 21:16 (UTC-0700):
> I've set up a new machine with Buster (my first foray, my other
> machines are still running Stretch). It frequently locks up so
> hard that I have to hit the reset button. It seems to happen when
> scrolling a Notepad window in Windows XP, which is running under
> VirtualBox 6.0.10 r132072.
> The machine has an ASUS P5L-MX motherboard and I'm using its onboard
> VGA adapter.
> I suspect a video driver issue. Can anyone point me to some info
> on configuring and troubleshooting such things? Up until now any
> machine I've installed Linux on has Just Worked. I've heard of
> various gotchas but this is the first time I've been bitten.
None of your command output reports the DDX in use. inxi -Gxx would do that. It
might not matter. I have 3 Dells that use the same chipset. They give me no such
trouble now, but they did in the past, victims of the tail end of the bad caps
plague[1]. Have you inspected that motherboard and power supply for bad caps? [2]
Something else to try is memtest86(+), and reseating its RAM sticks. Its graphics
share system RAM.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
[2] http://badcaps.net/
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