<html><head></head><body>Sounds like RAM to me. AFAIK older Ubuntu versions set up a memtest86+ entry in GRUB by default, if not a CD/USB boot is always easy. <div class="gmail_quote">On September 6, 2014 11:55:28 PM EDT, Andy Ball <physicsnarf@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> The system seems to slow to a near halt or total system lockup with out warming or reason (no reason as in minimal apps running and it is a 3.0GHz Quad Core with 10 GB ram) <div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 6, 2014 11:41 PM, "Charles Ulrich" <<a href="mailto:charles@bityard.net">charles@bityard.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2014-09-06 21:58, Andy Ball wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hey everybody, Looking for some help and tips. I am currently running Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit) I am having some crash issues lately and suspect Hard drive or CPU issues are there tools that are recommended to help identify what the problem might be. Not the best with command line so graphical tools are desired. </blockquote> What kind of crash issues? Random applications crash? Kernel panics? The whole machine locks up? <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I am looking at upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04 I leaning towards fresh install. My main concern is keeping Virtual Box machines from breaking most of them are on an external drive is there something I need to be aware of and back up. </blockquote> I always make sure to keep a copy of /home and /etc handy when re-imaging a Linux machine. You should _always_ be doing backups! Thanks, Charles _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu" target="_blank">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div> <pre class="k9mail"><hr /> linux-user mailing list linux-user@egr.msu.edu <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </pre></blockquote></div> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>