My system screen goes black and displays Term Signal Killed?

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Published on 2010-11-12T12:29:55Z Indexed on 2011/01/08 4:59 UTC
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My computer will often just die randomly while I am using it. The screen goes black and sometimes displays the words TERM signal killed along with other things and sometimes it displays nothing. The writing stays on the screen momentarily before it disappears to just black. I then have to hold in the power button to turn it off and then re boot.

Here are the specs... help!

Ubuntu 10.04(lucid)
Kernel Linux 2.6.32-23-generic
GNOME 2.30.2
memory 495.7 MiB
processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4CPU 1.80GHz

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