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Hello, Gentoo. |
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I'm having problems with my machine hanging or rebooting spontaneously. |
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It's doing this, perhaps, every three or four weeks. I think that when |
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I'm in X, the system usually reboots, when I'm on a tty, it hangs. |
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This phenomenon has, up till now, been just below the level at which |
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it's annoying enough to do something about. But my machine just hung on |
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me a few minutes ago, and now it's definitely reached tha threshold |
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where spending effort fixing it seems justified. |
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My actual Gentoo installation is fine, in fact, so good that I've not |
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needed to post to the list for a long time. :-) |
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My system is an AMD Ryzen processor on an Asus Prime X370-Pro mainboard, |
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and is just over a year old. I don't think my RAM is unstable (though |
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it's been a long time since I've run that RAM checking program). |
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I honestly suspect the firmware on the mainboard. When it was new, the |
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board was practically unusable - with two sticks of RAM installed, it |
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would crash after about 1 - 3 minutes. With just one stick of RAM, it |
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stayed up long enough to install new firmware (version 0604), which |
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appeared to be stable. |
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Going back to Asus's firmware page, there appear to have been many |
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subsequent versions of the firmware released during the last year. |
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Would it be a good idea for me to download and attempt to install the |
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latest version? Is this in any way risky? (My mains supply is |
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reliable.) |
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Other than that, suggestions as to what to do would be welcome. |
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Thanks! |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |