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R C Mitchell wrote: |
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> I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I decided |
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> to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation |
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ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying |
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a real distribution :) </flame> |
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Typically now you'd prove me wrong and say how you've been using |
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<dieHardLinux> for years... anyhoo welcome! |
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>[snip excellent problem report] |
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> I'm reluctant to believe that this is down to an arbitrary hardware fault, |
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> since everything else works fine. It does seem to have something to do with |
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> emerging gentoo-sources. |
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hm, this screams hardware fault all over - I haven't seen one issue like |
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this come to anything else. Usually it's the RAM. Can you humour me |
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and try a stick from another machine, or at least reseat it? |
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No offence, but I doubt an Ubuntu install would tax your resources as |
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much as compiling your system as you have just done. Strange that you |
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came all the way to gentoo-sources before it manifested, but perhaps |
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it's the only one so far to keep your CPU at 100% for long enough. |
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Other things you could try are frequency scaling (maybe it's |
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overheating, where a temp sensor isn't picking it up); and reseating |
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your h/w. |
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> Is anybody able to rescue this maiden in distress and throw some light on my |
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> problem? |
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but girls don't exist on tha interwebz! |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it. -Samuel Goldwyn |
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