I am very confused about whats going on with my computer right now. When I first tried to turn it on yesterday it didnt past post so I took out the video card and used the onboard which worked for a couple of hours. Then programs just started to shut down and I couldnt even open the start menu. When I tried to restart it would just keep restarting overt and over again. The keyboard doesnt even really work when working in the BIOS. Any Idea?

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Ubuntu 8.04.1

Gnome 2.22.3

ooh, that doesn't sound too good!
I had a similar problem to this a while ago now, and my problem was that the fans were not connected up. And when it reached a certain temp. It turned off.

If they are, the first thing I'd do would be to restore the BIOS settings back to default settings.

Jam

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It does sound like a temperature issue. Especially, how it works initially and then begins to fail as the computer warms up. I had an issue with a graphics card similar to that; it turned out the heatsink had fallen off.

I 2nd reseting BIOS and double checking the inside to make sure everything spins and is where it's supposed to be.

I have actually narrowed it down to my mouse or keyboard needing to be replaced. I borrowed someone elses computer and accidently put my mouse and keyboard in and had the same problem so I tried his mouse and keyboard on my pc and mine works perfectly

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Ubuntu 8.04.1

Gnome 2.22.3