On Sun, 20 May 2018 23:20:36 +0100 Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 May 2018 21:54:32 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > 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! > Hello, Interesting post. Just read this and have same issue. AMD Ryzen X370 Asus motherboard I seem to get issue roughly every two to three weeks where I get a complete lock (Sys rescue keys dont work) or occasional reboot. I personally think this is a ryzen/linux issue as I dual boot with Windows and never had a problem there (for gaming purposes only). Not much help but good to see I'm not the only one. Think you'll be fine loading latest firmware as have done this but it hasn't really helped. John
