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Old machine has died and gone to the recycler. It was having trouble even |
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starting up had to hit start button multiple times. New machine has nvme |
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drives on it and plenty of usb ports so older drives with other systems |
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can be attached. I updated grub after connecting one of these drives so |
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will experiment later today to see if I can boot from the second older |
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drive. That older machine gave good service for 8 years. |
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On Sun, 17 Apr 2022, Jack wrote: |
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> On 4/17/22 11:06, Jude DaShiell wrote: |
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> > ... |
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> > Most recent crash happened after opening links on the gentoo page itself. |
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> > So far, gentoo is the only flavor of linux used around here that crashes |
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> > my hardware like that. It was suggested the special glue holding the fan |
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> > to the cpu may have given out and in that case it's time for a new |
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> > computer. |
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> I don't believe that is glue, but thermal compound, which is supposed to |
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> assist the flow of heat from the CPU to the heat sink. If that is the problem, |
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> then your shutdowns would be due to overheating. Depending on the particular |
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> motherboard/CPU combination, it should be possible for someone to remove the |
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> fan and heat sink from the CPU, clean off the old compound, and replace the |
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> heat sink using new thermal compound. I don't know if there is any way for |
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> you to monitor the CPU temperature or at least get a warning if that is the |
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> reason for the shutdown. |
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> > In any case, this has been max frustrating. |
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> Quite understandable. |
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