Hi, please help me troubleshoot this.
Relevant Hardware:
Motherboard: ASUS P5AD2-E Premium (Proactive ai Series)
Graphics Card: GV-NX62TC128D (basically nVidia GeForce 6200)
Symptoms:
1) I had installed Ubuntu (7.10 Gutsy). The first thing I noticed is that when enabling the restricted drivers for the 6200, the UI was really sluggish. I think I fixed it by installing some package (nvidia-kernel-common maybe?) It PARTIALLY fixed the problem: It was still slow when starting up, but then when I switched to TTY1 and back to 7, it magically started working.
2) I noticed a couple of times that after running the screensaver for a while, it locked up entirely (keyboard was flashing, screen was frozen). I would just reboot it and it fixed it, but I was worried at this point.
3) Last time that happened, it wouldn't properly boot up again. Here are things I've seen it do:
a) Not even get to showing the screen at all
b) Giving a "Failed overclocking - press F2 for default features" message right at bootup
c) If I manage to go into the BIOS setup to look around, I'll eventually hear 2 short beeps every now and then from the PC Speaker. The motherboard manual didn't include the beep patterns (and I have yet to look them up). But it's interesting that I never got a beep pattern while trying to boot up.
So, I'm thinking my motherboard is fried. It's too bad - I didn't even get all that much use out of it (well, 2 years or so, but it was very sporadic, as opposed to constant use like my main machine).
Come to think about it, it might even be my CPU or (to a lesser extent) my hard drive. Is there anything else I can do, short of trying each component individually on a known, working machine, to narrow down the issue? I have yet to inspect the inside of the box for obviously fried hardware, but I seriously doubt I'll see anything...
Thanks!
Relevant Hardware:
Motherboard: ASUS P5AD2-E Premium (Proactive ai Series)
Graphics Card: GV-NX62TC128D (basically nVidia GeForce 6200)
Symptoms:
1) I had installed Ubuntu (7.10 Gutsy). The first thing I noticed is that when enabling the restricted drivers for the 6200, the UI was really sluggish. I think I fixed it by installing some package (nvidia-kernel-common maybe?) It PARTIALLY fixed the problem: It was still slow when starting up, but then when I switched to TTY1 and back to 7, it magically started working.
2) I noticed a couple of times that after running the screensaver for a while, it locked up entirely (keyboard was flashing, screen was frozen). I would just reboot it and it fixed it, but I was worried at this point.
3) Last time that happened, it wouldn't properly boot up again. Here are things I've seen it do:
a) Not even get to showing the screen at all
b) Giving a "Failed overclocking - press F2 for default features" message right at bootup
c) If I manage to go into the BIOS setup to look around, I'll eventually hear 2 short beeps every now and then from the PC Speaker. The motherboard manual didn't include the beep patterns (and I have yet to look them up). But it's interesting that I never got a beep pattern while trying to boot up.
So, I'm thinking my motherboard is fried. It's too bad - I didn't even get all that much use out of it (well, 2 years or so, but it was very sporadic, as opposed to constant use like my main machine).
Come to think about it, it might even be my CPU or (to a lesser extent) my hard drive. Is there anything else I can do, short of trying each component individually on a known, working machine, to narrow down the issue? I have yet to inspect the inside of the box for obviously fried hardware, but I seriously doubt I'll see anything...
Thanks!