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Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this?

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On Sun, 01 Mar 2015 13:51:55 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> Tried to upgrade an old Pentium IV system Radeon 9500 to Mint 17.1
> yesterday. Mostly it worked. Passed a basic RAM check..
> 
> But after a while it would always lock up in one of tow different ways.
> 
> Oddly some stuff seemed to work in daemon mode after it junked. I was
> copying a large file to it via smbd when it froze but the file transfer
> completed.
> 
> The symptoms were either a completely blank screen with 'no signal'
> reported by the monitor, or a frozen screen and keyboard but with mouse
> movement still observed.
> 
> I have abandonded the attempt to turn it into something usable and left
> it in windows XP mode, because it wasn't powerful enough for the task it
> was being resurrected for.
> 
> But I am still curious. I cant see what exactly could cause this,
> especially a total lack of video output.

Since it runs xp ok, I might suspect some obscure video driver issue. 
Have you tried a distro designed for older hardware?

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What hardware/software fault could cause this? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-01 13:51 +0000
  Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-01 15:31 +0000
  Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-03-01 15:53 +0000
    Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-03-01 17:13 +0000
      Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-01 19:41 +0000
        Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-03-02 17:45 +0000
      Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2015-03-02 18:11 +0000
  Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-03-01 17:16 +0000
  Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-03-01 17:25 +0000
    Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this? gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2015-03-02 10:44 +0100
  Re: What hardware/software fault could cause this? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2015-03-03 22:49 +0000

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