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Adam Carter wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 8:35 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hello, Gentoo. |
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> > I'm having problems with my machine hanging or rebooting |
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> spontaneously. |
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> > It's doing this, perhaps, every three or four weeks. I think |
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> 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 |
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> 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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> > |
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> > My actual Gentoo installation is fine, in fact, so good that |
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> 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 |
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> mainboard, |
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> > and is just over a year old. I don't think my RAM is unstable |
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> (though |
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> > it's been a long time since I've run that RAM checking program). |
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> I ran memory checking overnight on my unstable (segfaults) AMD 8350 |
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> system, but no issues were found. Underclocking the RAM to the next |
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> lowest speed completely addressed the issue. If i get keen i may |
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> re-visit the RAM timing to see if it can be made to run stable at the |
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> nominal frequency with more conservative settings on the other parameters. |
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> If the firmware hasnt fixed it, the underclocking is cheap test, but |
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> yeah power supplies seem to be problematic. I always buy branded ones, |
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> but even then only had mediocre results. |
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In the past, I've had bad ram test OK with those tests. When those |
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tests say ram is bad, it seems to always be accurate but sometimes it |
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doesn't catch a bad stick. I don't know if it doesn't test the whole |
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thing or what. I read somewhere that it sets aside a certain amount of |
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ram for the test program itself, after all it has to be in memory to |
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run, so it doesn't test that part. So, even tho it says they are good, |
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it may not be certain. It would make me consider other causes tho. |
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I've only had that happen a couple times. |
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I'd run at the default settings first. If it still does it, then you |
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can go back to your custom settings after you fix the problem. I |
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thought about overclocking at one time but for what I do, it doesn't |
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really matter much. My puter spends most of its time waiting on me not |
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the other way around. I guess if someone has their system doing some |
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number crunching, foldingathome or something then it may matter more. |
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I have Thermaltake power supplies here. It's not the best out there for |
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sure but it is in spec and reasonable price wise. Some of those el |
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cheapos are cheap for a reason. I bought a case once that came with |
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one. I only paid like $50.00 for the whole thing. Given a bare case |
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that was close usually costs around $40.00 at the time, they couldn't |
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have spent much on the P/S. I removed it first thing and put in a |
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proper P/S. The el cheapo made a good paper weight tho. The best |
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insurance tho is one that someone has tested. You can still get one bad |
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out of the box but it gives you better odds for sure. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |