Hmm another thing I would try too is also seeking out any hard drive bad sectors. -- I had a few cases were bad hard drive would cause my computer run at a crawl, but if it's randomly freezing it maybe hard to troubleshoot... Have you tried disconnecting your video card and only use on board video? -- If no issues, it maybe a driver/video card issue.

If it's still crashing randomly without video card, I would recommend trying to see if you can get a friend or someone to help get you a live USB of mint or whatever you like and try checking the hard drive for issues.
https://mintguide.org/system/283-how-to-check-and-fix-the-disk-for-errors-and-bad-sectors-in-linux-mint.html

If it even crashes still with the live USB, sounds like something else majorly wrong w/ the hardware, would be my guess and you are going to have to spend sometime swapping in new hardware cabling at that point, would be my guess.



On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 1:02 AM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
run from the boot menu. no errors.... oh.... I forgot to mention that it crashed once since this freezing thing started..

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:32 PM Andrew McRobb <andrewmcrobb@gmail.com> wrote:
I would run Memtest and see whats going on first. Random freezes can be a sign of bad RAM, especially if you are using older computer parts. I would first run Memtest from the boot menu of your OS and test the sticks and see if any errors throw up.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 9:18 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
this is a new happening. the computer has hummed along nicely for more than two years now.
$ sudo lshw
[sudo] password for bmike1: 
mikesbeast                
    description: Desktop Computer
    product: GA-MA785G-UD3H
    vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 vsyscall32
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop uuid=36434630-3439-3032-3031-3031FFFFFFFF
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: GA-MA785G-UD3H
       vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       version: x.x
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: F4
          date: 09/16/2009
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
          slot: Socket M2
          size: 1900MHz
          capacity: 3GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 200MHz
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt hw_pstate vmmcall npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save cpufreq
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: a
             slot: Internal Cache
             size: 128KiB
             capacity: 128KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
             configuration: level=1
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: c
             slot: External Cache
             size: 512KiB
             capacity: 512KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
             configuration: level=2
     *-cache
          description: L1 cache
          physical id: b
          slot: Internal Cache
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 128KiB
          capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
          configuration: level=1
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 28
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 8GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
             product: None
             vendor: None
             physical id: 0
             serial: None
             slot: A0
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
             product: None
             vendor: None
             physical id: 1
             serial: None
             slot: A1
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
        *-bank:2
             description: DIMM 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
             product: None
             vendor: None
             physical id: 2
             serial: None
             slot: A2
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
        *-bank:3
             description: DIMM 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
             product: None
             vendor: None
             physical id: 3
             serial: None
             slot: A3
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
     *-pci:0
          description: Host bridge
          product: RS880 Host Bridge
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 00
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          configuration: latency=32
        *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:18 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:fdf00000-fdffffff ioport:d0000000(size=268435456)
           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: RV770 [Radeon HD 4850]
                vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
                resources: irq:25 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fdfe0000-fdfeffff ioport:ee00(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff
           *-multimedia
                description: Audio device
                product: RV770 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4850/4870]
                vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
                physical id: 0.1
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
                version: 00
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
                resources: irq:26 memory:fdffc000-fdffffff
        *-pci:1
             description: PCI bridge
             product: RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 5)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
             physical id: a
             bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm pciexpress msi ht normal_decode bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pcieport
             resources: irq:18 ioport:d000(size=4096) memory:fde00000-fdefffff ioport:fdb00000(size=1048576)
           *-network
                description: Ethernet interface
                product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
                vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
                logical name: enp2s0
                version: 02
                serial: 6c:f0:49:02:01:01
                size: 10Mbit/s
                capacity: 1Gbit/s
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
                configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
                resources: irq:18 ioport:de00(size=256) memory:fdbff000-fdbfffff memory:fdbe0000-fdbeffff memory:fde00000-fde0ffff
        *-storage
             description: SATA controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 11
             bus info: pci@0000:00:11.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: storage pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ahci latency=32
             resources: irq:22 ioport:ff00(size=8) ioport:fe00(size=4) ioport:fd00(size=8) ioport:fc00(size=4) ioport:fb00(size=16) memory:fe02f000-fe02f3ff
        *-usb:0
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 12
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=32
             resources: irq:16 memory:fe02e000-fe02efff
           *-usbhost
                product: OHCI PCI host controller
                vendor: Linux 4.15.0-39-generic ohci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@3
                logical name: usb3
                version: 4.15
                capabilities: usb-1.10
                configuration: driver=hub slots=3 speed=12Mbit/s
              *-usb
                   description: Keyboard
                   product: Logitech USB Keyboard
                   vendor: Logitech
                   physical id: 3
                   bus info: usb@3:3
                   version: 28.00
                   capabilities: usb-1.10
                   configuration: driver=usbhid maxpower=100mA speed=2Mbit/s
        *-usb:1
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 12.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=32
             resources: irq:16 memory:fe02d000-fe02dfff
           *-usbhost
                product: OHCI PCI host controller
                vendor: Linux 4.15.0-39-generic ohci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@4
                logical name: usb4
                version: 4.15
                capabilities: usb-1.10
                configuration: driver=hub slots=3 speed=12Mbit/s
              *-usb
                   description: Mouse
                   product: USB Optical Mouse
                   vendor: Primax Electronics, Ltd
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: usb@4:1
                   version: 2.00
                   capabilities: usb-2.00
                   configuration: driver=usbhid maxpower=98mA speed=2Mbit/s
        *-usb:2
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 12.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:12.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=32
             resources: irq:17 memory:fe02c000-fe02c0ff
           *-usbhost
                product: EHCI Host Controller
                vendor: Linux 4.15.0-39-generic ehci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@1
                logical name: usb1
                version: 4.15
                capabilities: usb-2.00
                configuration: driver=hub slots=6 speed=480Mbit/s
              *-usb
                   description: USB hub
                   product: USB2.0 Hub
                   vendor: Genesys Logic, Inc.
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: usb@1:1
                   version: 7.02
                   capabilities: usb-2.00
                   configuration: driver=hub maxpower=100mA slots=4 speed=480Mbit/s
                 *-usb:0
                      description: Audio device
                      product: HD Webcam C525
                      vendor: Logitech, Inc.
                      physical id: 3
                      bus info: usb@1:1.3
                      version: 0.10
                      serial: 4E722DD0
                      capabilities: usb-2.00 audio-control
                      configuration: driver=uvcvideo maxpower=500mA speed=480Mbit/s
                 *-usb:1
                      description: USB hub
                      product: USB 2.0 Hub
                      vendor: Terminus Technology Inc.
                      physical id: 4
                      bus info: usb@1:1.4
                      version: 1.11
                      capabilities: usb-2.00
                      configuration: driver=hub maxpower=100mA slots=4 speed=480Mbit/s
                    *-usb
                         description: Mass storage device
                         product: Flash Card Reader/Writer
                         vendor: Generic
                         physical id: 4
                         bus info: usb@1:1.4.4
                         logical name: scsi6
                         version: 1.00
                         serial: 058F63666438
                         capabilities: usb-2.00 scsi emulated scsi-host
                         configuration: driver=usb-storage maxpower=100mA speed=480Mbit/s
                       *-disk
                            description: SCSI Disk
                            physical id: 0.0.0
                            bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
                            logical name: /dev/sdb
                            configuration: logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=512
        *-usb:3
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 13
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=32
             resources: irq:18 memory:fe02b000-fe02bfff
           *-usbhost
                product: OHCI PCI host controller
                vendor: Linux 4.15.0-39-generic ohci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@5
                logical name: usb5
                version: 4.15
                capabilities: usb-1.10
                configuration: driver=hub slots=3 speed=12Mbit/s
        *-usb:4
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 13.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=32
             resources: irq:18 memory:fe02a000-fe02afff
           *-usbhost
                product: OHCI PCI host controller
                vendor: Linux 4.15.0-39-generic ohci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@6
                logical name: usb6
                version: 4.15
                capabilities: usb-1.10
                configuration: driver=hub slots=3 speed=12Mbit/s
        *-usb:5
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 13.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:13.2
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pm debug ehci bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ehci-pci latency=32
             resources: irq:19 memory:fe029000-fe0290ff
           *-usbhost
                product: EHCI Host Controller
                vendor: Linux 4.15.0-39-generic ehci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@2
                logical name: usb2
                version: 4.15
                capabilities: usb-2.00
                configuration: driver=hub slots=6 speed=480Mbit/s
        *-serial UNCLAIMED
             description: SMBus
             product: SBx00 SMBus Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
             version: 3c
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ht cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
        *-ide
             description: IDE interface
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14.1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.1
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide msi bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=pata_atiixp latency=32
             resources: irq:16 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:fa00(size=16)
        *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2
             version: 00
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=32
             resources: irq:16 memory:fe024000-fe027fff
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14.3
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master
             configuration: latency=0
        *-pci:2
             description: PCI bridge
             product: SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14.4
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.4
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master vga_palette
             resources: ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:fdd00000-fddfffff memory:fdc00000-fdcfffff
           *-network
                description: Wireless interface
                product: RT5362 PCI 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
                vendor: Ralink corp.
                physical id: 6
                bus info: pci@0000:03:06.0
                logical name: wlp3s6
                version: 00
                serial: e4:be:ed:04:95:ca
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=4.15.0-39-generic firmware=0.34 ip=10.0.0.6 latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=4 mingnt=2 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
                resources: irq:20 memory:fdde0000-fddeffff
           *-firewire
                description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
                product: TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
                vendor: Texas Instruments
                physical id: e
                bus info: pci@0000:03:0e.0
                version: 00
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=firewire_ohci latency=32 maxlatency=4 mingnt=2
                resources: irq:22 memory:fddff000-fddff7ff memory:fddf8000-fddfbfff
        *-usb:6
             description: USB controller
             product: SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI2 Controller
             vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
             physical id: 14.5
             bus info: pci@0000:00:14.5
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ohci bus_master
             configuration: driver=ohci-pci latency=32
             resources: irq:18 memory:fe028000-fe028fff
           *-usbhost
                product: OHCI PCI host controller
                vendor: Linux 4.15.0-39-generic ohci_hcd
                physical id: 1
                bus info: usb@7
                logical name: usb7
                version: 4.15
                capabilities: usb-1.10
                configuration: driver=hub slots=2 speed=12Mbit/s
     *-pci:1
          description: Host bridge
          product: Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 101
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:2
          description: Host bridge
          product: Family 10h Processor Address Map
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 102
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:3
          description: Host bridge
          product: Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 103
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:4
          description: Host bridge
          product: Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 104
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=k10temp
          resources: irq:0
     *-pci:5
          description: Host bridge
          product: Family 10h Processor Link Control
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD]
          physical id: 105
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.4
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-scsi
          physical id: 1
          logical name: scsi0
          capabilities: emulated
        *-disk
             description: ATA Disk
             product: ST500DM002-1BD14
             vendor: Seagate
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/sda
             version: KC45
             serial: Z2AV4105
             size: 465GiB (500GB)
             capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
             configuration: ansiversion=5 logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=4096 signature=2d180100
           *-volume:0
                description: EXT4 volume
                vendor: Linux
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
                logical name: /dev/sda1
                logical name: /
                version: 1.0
                serial: a0b38ba2-188f-4efb-bbeb-33bbd9c268e2
                size: 457GiB
                capacity: 457GiB
                capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                configuration: created=2018-04-12 21:26:24 filesystem=ext4 lastmountpoint=/ modified=2018-12-14 15:25:15 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2018-12-14 10:31:36 state=mounted
           *-volume:1
                description: Extended partition
                physical id: 2
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
                logical name: /dev/sda2
                size: 8189MiB
                capacity: 8189MiB
                capabilities: primary extended partitioned partitioned:extended
              *-logicalvolume
                   description: Linux swap / Solaris partition
                   physical id: 5
                   logical name: /dev/sda5
                   capacity: 8189MiB
                   capabilities: nofs


On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:10 PM Jim <jim.nantz15@comcast.net> wrote:

I used to have an HP computer.  It  would lock up at random when it was running linux.  I found out later that there was a bug in the bios it was using that only affected linux, and HP wasn't interested, at that time in fixing the bug.  Others might have better luck coming up with a solution if you can tell the list what hardware is in this computer of yours.

On 12/14/18 7:14 AM, Michael wrote:
I start linux and everything is good. But after I start Chrome sometimes it freezes. Any ideas as to why? 
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