Hello, Gentoo. I'm having problems with my machine hanging or rebooting spontaneously. It's doing this, perhaps, every three or four weeks. I think that when I'm in X, the system usually reboots, when I'm on a tty, it hangs.
This phenomenon has, up till now, been just below the level at which it's annoying enough to do something about. But my machine just hung on me a few minutes ago, and now it's definitely reached tha threshold where spending effort fixing it seems justified. My actual Gentoo installation is fine, in fact, so good that I've not needed to post to the list for a long time. :-) My system is an AMD Ryzen processor on an Asus Prime X370-Pro mainboard, and is just over a year old. I don't think my RAM is unstable (though it's been a long time since I've run that RAM checking program). I honestly suspect the firmware on the mainboard. When it was new, the board was practically unusable - with two sticks of RAM installed, it would crash after about 1 - 3 minutes. With just one stick of RAM, it stayed up long enough to install new firmware (version 0604), which appeared to be stable. Going back to Asus's firmware page, there appear to have been many subsequent versions of the firmware released during the last year. Would it be a good idea for me to download and attempt to install the latest version? Is this in any way risky? (My mains supply is reliable.) Other than that, suggestions as to what to do would be welcome. Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
