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[Ryba <sepatel@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm also experiencing this type of problem. It only started happening to
me in the last couple of months though (when I upgraded from my old
nvidia 7600 GT to the nvidia 9400GT card). I used to use a different
nvidia driver (173 maybe???) but now that wouldn't work and I had to use
the 180 version. Since then I had sparatically noticed silly things most
of which were not reproducable but the computer would suddenly power off
both monitors and then stay frozen or sometimes reboot itself.

I finally found a game that I could start up which would reproduce the
error 100% of the time called Heroes of Newerth (in beta so requires
permission to download the game). The game would startup just fine and
start downloading patches and stuff and then after almost exactly 15
seconds, in the middle of it downloading the entire computer would lock
up and crash just like what I had randomly noticed in the past.
Repeating the process implies that the download wasn't the problem
because it resumes where it left off and finishes up more of the upgrade
process but it keeps crashing after about 15 seconds (after the login
process, doesn't crash at the login screen ever).

I had sometimes noticed that Google Chrome would do the same thing if
you started typing in the address bar. It would suddenly go extremely
slow on its lookups and then power off the computer. These things only
happen on my computers using the 180 (or 185 in karmic cases) computers.
The intel and ati computers have no problems what so ever with anything.
And I don't recall my older video card ever having problems (but it used
the version before 180).

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xserver crash on closing a window
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376099
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