Strange 'buntu crash

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Jerry Feldman wrote:

>
> This looks like a hardware issue. In the past, when I has a lockup, I
> would try to get into the system via ssh. First, were you able to ping
> the system from another computer. Secondly, if you were able to ping it,
> could you connect to it via ssh (if sshd enabled)?
>    

This morning, it booted up displaying a bunch of console messages, then 
froze.  Reviewed BIOS settings - made a change, rebooted, it came up 
fine.  I did not try to ping it from another computer.

The memory timing settings for each DIMM were set to Turbo, these were 
changed this to Normal.  Medium and Fast are the other settings.