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shawn1345

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Arch freezes on HP PC

I have an HP Pavilion p6-2100 and sometimes it will randomly freeze. I have no memory issues or anything like that, but it does tend to happen when doing something hardware intensive.

karol

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Re: Arch freezes on HP PC

Anything interesting in the logs or systemd's journal?
What do you mean by 'hardware intensive'? I/O, CPU ...?

shawn1345

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Re: Arch freezes on HP PC

I checked the logs and there's nothing abnormal and as for hardware intensive I mean while using applications that take up quite a bit of CPU/GPU time

archlenovo

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Registered: 2014-01-25

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Re: Arch freezes on HP PC

I would bet it's the graphics card/video driver.

This PC seems to have an AMD graphics card. If you don't know exactly what card it is, run lspci.

I would try changing from the proprietary driver to the open source driver, or the other way around. For more info, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI.

shawn1345

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Re: Arch freezes on HP PC

I would bet it's the graphics card/video driver.

This PC seems to have an AMD graphics card. If you don't know exactly what card it is, run lspci.

I would try changing from the proprietary driver to the open source driver, or the other way around. For more info, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI.

I've changed to the proprietary driver and it still occurs although less often.