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Forced to run fsck on every startup

Asked by Keith M

Ever since I built my computer I've had random freezing...progressionally becoming more often over time. It got to the point where no matter what I was doing, 3d work, or not even anything, it would freeze. I'm convinced it's something with my graphics card because it happens on both xp and ubuntu...since I have a partitioned HD. And when I switch to onboard graphics, it doesn't happen.

The only solutions I found were before bootup to switch the GPU to my secondary PCIe slot...and it usually delays the freeze. I initially thought it was an overheating issue until even on a rainy day of 60 degrees, it still happens. Eventually it has come to the point where it gives me an error on boot up every day...something like "Failed to mount .3a......" If the exact code is needed I can get it.

Is my GPU shot that it's causing this? It used to ONLY freeze-up when I was doing something very graphics intense.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Test your RAM using the option in Grub. Is it healthy?

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Keith M (keithmccjr) said : 		#2

Ok, I've been testing my ram for the past 20 hrs...and it's STILL going...I don't want to close it, so I just took a picture of what's going on...and if I'm right something isn't right, it has 137 million errors...and 0 passes. Is there someway I can post the picture? I want to be sure it IS actually errors and not a mis-read on my part...is this fixable, or do I have to buy new RAM?

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Keith M (keithmccjr) said : 		#3

I solved it by removing one of my RAM sticks.