I logged into Linux Mint 7 Gnome about 30 minutes ago, opened up Firefox and left my computer running while I went and made myself an omelette (was very nice by the way
), when I came back my computer was on its screensaver (which kicks in after 15 minutes) but it was flickering, I could move the mouse but it was very slow and behind my movement, the only way to restart the computer was by pressing the power button.When I turned the computer back on the first screen, which allows you to enter the BIOS, was completely screwed, had little dots all over it and looked like the graphics were buggered.
It wouldn't let me log into Mint either, got past the loading screen but then the screen was all black, I could move the mouse but there was nothing there.
Had to restart again, this time it did exactly the same thing in Safe Mode so I tried logging into my Windows 7 partition, that didn't even get past the loading screen.
I tried once more and for some reason the BIOS screen looked normal and I'm now in Linux Mint 7 but it's crashed twice so far while writing this post (which is why I'm writing it in OpenOffice now so that I can save it
), both times it was fine until I opened Firefox which maybe the problem, I don't know. I could move the mouse but the screen was just stuck as like a picture of what I was doing, frozen completely which is strange since I could move the mouse?I'm going to try Windows 7 again and see if I can get into that and also try Firefox and a couple of other browsers but I'm asking for help here in case I have a hard time browsing for the answer and it seems I'm a bit unstable at the moment, I haven't downloaded any updates since 6th September which an update for Opera.
I've been using Linux Mint 7 Gnome since the stable version was released and I've also used Linux Mint 5 & 6 Gnome without any problems like this, which makes me think it might be my graphics card.
Is there any Terminal commands I can run that would tell me if there's any problems with it?
lspci returns this:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev c0)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT (rev a1)
Not sure if that's of any use.
Any help appreciated please
Steve
