On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 1:54 PM MR ZenWiz <mrzen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a box that was discarded by a friend of mine whom I advised on > replacing it with a new computer, even helped her pick it out and set > it up (for a fee). The old one of which I relieved her has an ASRock > motherboard, AMD A6 or A8 processor, a 240GB SSD for the boot drive > and a 750GB Seagate for the data drive. > > I was able to install Windows 10 Pro on it, and it also booted from my > Ventoy drive to "run" Xubuntu 20.04.4. In fact, it seems to run > Windows better than Xubuntu, sad to say. > > The problem is that it tends to freeze up unexpectedly after some > random period of time. Today I tried to reboot it into Xubunu 22.04.1 > on my Ventoy drive, and it boots, but it doesn't run long enough to > get the panel on the screen, just the Jammy logo. > > I wanted to do this to get the lshw configuration dump so I know > what's in it to see if I can sell it, but right now it looks more like > a recyclable trash box. > > This freeze occurs no matter what it is running. It has frozen on the > Ventoy boot screen, running in Windows, running the Xubuntu 20.04 from > the flash drive, anytime, no warning, it just stops. > > I'll try to get the configuration out of it, but so far that has not worked. > > What do I do to test out what might be the case, other than running > the BIOS diagnostics (which all shows everything as fine and running > smoothly)? > > It also has an achingly slow response to the keyboard and mouse - I'm > thinking the USB ports are sketchy too. > > Thanks, I hope. > I suspect it may have been the power supply - the system no longer boots at all.
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