Help! Mint keeps on freezing every 15 minutes (LM Maya 13)

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Help! Mint keeps on freezing every 15 minutes (LM Maya 13)

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Re: Help! Mint keeps on freezing every 15 minutes (LM Maya 1

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My opinion is you're doomed; you have no time, you don't want to try anything different, and you are describing an unusual problem that is just not going to be cleared up quickly.

Dissertation is the big thing. I do understand that. Quite seriously: use another computer.

You don't have time to figure out this one. Also it may be bad hardware. You sure better be keeping external backups of the work you are doing.
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Re: Help! Mint keeps on freezing every 15 minutes (LM Maya 1

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You don't say whether or not it did this when you had windows installed? If it did then it's looking like hardware, do as the poster above mentioned and get your work backed up. If it's only recent it could just be a coincidence and bad luck that you installed when something was on the blink, could be mobo/memory/graphics related, hard to tell, if you checked your hardware for compatibility before you installed and/or ran from a live DVD/USB without issue?? You could also maybe think about booting from a live DVD/USB and running the memtest to check your RAM and the disk utility to check the integrity of your HDD.

Maybe someone else can chip in with other hardware related suggestions for you so bump your post again over the next day or so but don't forget that backup!
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Re: Help! Mint keeps on freezing every 15 minutes (LM Maya 1

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keeping external backups
And it looks as though there is a LOT to backup on this system.
Your computer hardware is more advanced than most others who use Maya.
It would be interesting to know if you have freezing problems when booting into the iso live, and if Mint 17 may have better support for the more advanced hardware.
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Re: Help! Mint keeps on freezing every 15 minutes (LM Maya 1

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Re: Help! Mint keeps on freezing every 15 minutes (LM Maya 1

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Good call.

Maybe something is a little loose and the machine doesn't like to be flexed? Strange. The total freeze you describe sure does sound like hardware.

Also if it borks completely, don't forget to try running it on the live DVD. You can install all normal drivers, and with all that RAM you have you can do regular updates too, as well as install more software.
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