Re: what does it mean

2019-11-13 Thread Bob Elzer
Use the command "last" It can tell you when the machine was rebooted or crashed Then look at the programs that crashed during that time with the abrt program. With CentOs 7 the alsa sound routines caused problems on my system in the early days. They have been fixed now. On Wed, Nov 13,

Re: what does it mean

2019-11-13 Thread Michael
I think I'll let it run overnight. How would that benefit memtest? On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:18 AM Stephen Partington wrote: > duration has multiple factors from the quantity of ram to bus speed to > memory speed. I have run into this before, and most times it proved that > the board I was

Re: what does it mean

2019-11-13 Thread Michael
I found something that might work. Thanks, Bob. On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:28 AM Bob Elzer wrote: > CentOs has a program called gnome-abrt it is the automatic bug reporting > tool > > It shows a list of programs that have crashed along with the dump data. It > also includes kernel crashes. > >

Re: what does it mean

2019-11-13 Thread Bob Elzer
CentOs has a program called gnome-abrt it is the automatic bug reporting tool It shows a list of programs that have crashed along with the dump data. It also includes kernel crashes. See if you have a similar program on your OS On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 8:16 AM Michael wrote: > memtest

Re: what does it mean

2019-11-13 Thread Michael
lovely! On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:18 AM Stephen Partington wrote: > duration has multiple factors from the quantity of ram to bus speed to > memory speed. I have run into this before, and most times it proved that > the board I was using for the backbone of my computer was the culprit. > > On

Re: what does it mean

2019-11-13 Thread Stephen Partington
duration has multiple factors from the quantity of ram to bus speed to memory speed. I have run into this before, and most times it proved that the board I was using for the backbone of my computer was the culprit. On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:16 AM Michael wrote: > memtest reported: pass

Re: booting problem from gigabyte motherboard solved

2019-11-13 Thread Stephen Partington
I really like etcher. It fails with windows based images but works like a champ for pretty much any others. On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 9:53 PM Jim wrote: > A few months ago I had trouble with my old Gigabyte motherboard booting > from a USB stick. I had been getting around it using the Plop >

Re: what does it mean

2019-11-13 Thread Michael
memtest reported: pass complete- no errors it took about an hour. should it have taken longer? On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 3:44 AM wrote: > Run memtest... > > > Michael writes: > > > It doesn't happen often bu every once in a while the computer freezes. I > > then do a hard reboot (push the

Re: what does it mean

2019-11-13 Thread kitepilot
Run memtest... Michael writes: It doesn't happen often bu every once in a while the computer freezes. I then do a hard reboot (push the button until it turns off) and when it is powering on nothing loads not even the BIOS screen (the first screen that appears after pushing the power