random crashes

[agraham]

On 02/26/2011 05:33 PM, Chris Tyler wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 18:21 +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
>> My desktop machine started having random crashes last summer when
>> I installed Fedora 13 (x86_64) on it.
> (snip)
>
> A bit more information would help us make some useful suggestions --
>
> What kind of hardware? (lshw can be useful here)
>
> What kind of crashes?
> - system turns off abruptly
> - system locks up from GUI but is still pingable
> - system locks up and is unresponsive both locally and on the network
> - gui shuts down and error messages spray all over the console
> - ...?
>
> What's your system configuration, in particular the video configuration
> (in terms of both hardware and software)?
>
> Any health alerts from your hardware? You mention checking temperature
> and seeing nothing unusual, anything from the disk via SMART? If your
> BIOS reports voltage levels, are they normal?
>
> Any correlation between activity and crashes? Does it happen when you're
> using the machine, or away from it for a few minutes? Does it matter
> what you're doing?
>
> -Chris
>

In addition, is the kernel tainted?

I've found (start around the same time - last summer) that I cannot get 
nvidia drivers (from nvidia's website) to work on my FC13/14 machine 
without random crashes, however if I compile the stock kernel it's rock 
solid.

Albert.