Are you sure all your fans are running, including in your power supply?
If you CPU fan secured properly and has good (Not dried out) thermal
paste on it. If you took your CPU fan off and it had some of that
thermal waxy stuff on it and you just put it back on, it's probably not
conducting heat very well. I would take it back off and scrape all that
stuff off and put some proper thermal compound on it in it's place.
In my experience, if your computer is randomly locking up, it's usually
heat related. Although it CAN be the power supply, usually power
supplies just tend to outright die and will refuse to turn on your
machine when they go bad. The other things are bad RAM and bad
software.... but if you've tested your ram and you haven't changed
anything software wise, I would look for a heat related issue.
Brian Cluff
On 7/12/20 7:49 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
OK.... well, I ran stress and gearsglx and the computer ran fine for
about 5 minutes and then it froze. so this means it is the hardware?
so I guess.... is it the power supply? what else could it be? how can
I verify or else is it a shot in the dark?
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:17 PM Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
thanks for shaaring your experiances with me!
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:58 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
That is about how my laptop was acting using the i915 driver vs. the intel
kernel mode driver... Maybe make sure you're not using that, by default you
shouldn't. I ended up with it trying to make prime gpu switching work.
It could be gpu related still, most browsers use hardware acceleration that
could be hitting it.
Try running glx-gears for a while in full-screen to see how it acts if it dies
when heating up.
I also had an older system that was locking up seemingly whenever I'd hit the
graphics. Turns out the gpu fan went bad, with ambient case fans keeping it
cool enough off the heatsink, but watching a movie or something that hit the
gpu, it would crash. Tearing it open it was then obvious the fan wasn't
working. Of course I couldn't find a fan that fit the stupid thing, so I ended
up buying a new gpu for it, all was well.
Only ever had one PSU that got wonky on me to crash intermittently in some 25
years of building pc's, but it happens...
Also, boot up and in grub run memtestx86 on it, bad memory sectors can cause
grief too with intermittent locks, usually the more ram you invoke, you'll hit
the bad spot.
-mb
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 9:36 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
you know.... it seems that the first time of the day I start it it
runs a few minutes and then freezes. but upon subsequent restarts
everything is good.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:18 PM Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
I have ssh installed on my system but to ssh into another system you
need ssh-server installed on your computer but I can't find it. I
guess I'm wrong. What else do you need installed?
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:03 PM Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
I think my issue might also be grafix related because when it first
started doing this the dark areas on my desktop picture would turn
blue when it froze. I do have another system. Could you walk me
through solving the problem?
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 11:11 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
It really could be about anything, hardware or software. Unplug everything
unnecessary, even usb things, and just see if it locks up then. I've had psu's
do this, video cards, ram, even usb devices cause weird hardware-ish problems.
Check dmesg and /var/log as well for errors/events, could indicate a flaky
device.
Also software - upgrading ram recently, I also updated my system since I had to
reboot anyways, and my pc began locking up every 2 days. I thought the new ram
perhaps was bad, but memtest looked ok. It took some digging, but guess I
picked up a bug in using an old intel graphics driver inadvertently, removed
that driver, and I've had 70 days of uptime since.
I had to get a bit creative to diag this, including sshing into it from another
system when it did lock up. Turns out it was graphics related, just the
display froze, but the system worked otherwise headless. This led me to
investigate graphics as a source of the lockups to fix at a driver level. If
you have another system available, I'd suggest that.
-mb
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 6:36 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
sometimes my computer freezes. is iut the power supply?
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