Ken Smith wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
On 12/7/2016 12:09 PM, Ken Smith wrote:
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd P43-ES3G
thtas a rather old motherboard, like circa 2008? my longtime experiences with consumer desktop grade hardware suggest that at 5 years, 50% of them go flaky. that one is about 8 years old now.
I know its old. I have quite a few (5) PCI video capture cards in there for MythTV and very few modern motherboards have PCI interfaces these days. Moving to something more recent would also mean scrapping those cards.
That said, I doubt that the age of the motherboard is related to the kernel panic after I stupidly de-installed the NVidia driver. It would be a sad double fault that the previously unused (but old) replacement mother board suffered a failure at the same time as I de-installed the NVidia driver. That would be very bad luck.
<snip> You *might* consider installing the proprietary driver. Make sure to get the correct one from the NVidia website. Trust me, I do it for several folks here, including myself, since my soon-to-be-retired workstation has an old NVidia card... and nouveau didn't, at least, do two monitors.
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