On 4/17/22 11:06, Jude DaShiell wrote:
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Most recent crash happened after opening links on the gentoo page itself.
So far, gentoo is the only flavor of linux used around here that crashes
my hardware like that. It was suggested the special glue holding the fan
to the cpu may have given out and in that case it's time for a new
computer.
I don't believe that is glue, but thermal compound, which is supposed to
assist the flow of heat from the CPU to the heat sink. If that is the
problem, then your shutdowns would be due to overheating. Depending on
the particular motherboard/CPU combination, it should be possible for
someone to remove the fan and heat sink from the CPU, clean off the old
compound, and replace the heat sink using new thermal compound. I don't
know if there is any way for you to monitor the CPU temperature or at
least get a warning if that is the reason for the shutdown.
In any case, this has been max frustrating.
Quite understandable.
Jack
