Old machine has died and gone to the recycler. It was having trouble even starting up had to hit start button multiple times. New machine has nvme drives on it and plenty of usb ports so older drives with other systems can be attached. I updated grub after connecting one of these drives so will experiment later today to see if I can boot from the second older drive. That older machine gave good service for 8 years.
On Sun, 17 Apr 2022, Jack wrote: > On 4/17/22 11:06, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > ... > > 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 > > > >
