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Hello again, Dale. |
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:23:14 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Mick wrote: |
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> > On Sunday, 10 June 2018 14:06:22 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> >> The shop I bouught everything from seems to have gone out of business, |
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> >> with both its telephone number and its website having been down for a |
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> >> sustained period. So I'm unlikely to be able to get the processor |
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> >> exchanged for an unbuggy one. Shelling out for a new processor out of my |
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> >> own pocket seems too much of a long shot to justify the money (~400 |
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> >> Euros) and the time. |
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> >> So it's looking like I'm not going to be getting the problem fixed any |
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> >> time soon. :-( |
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> > All may not be lost, yet. |
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> > Since this is arguably a manufacturing fault of the CPU, you should have some |
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> > consumer rights over it. Try contacting AMD directly for RMA, as long as it |
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> > is still under the *manufacturer's* warranty and you have your receipt. |
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> Plus trying to talk to them may lead to them knowing what the problem |
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> is. Whether it is mobo or CPU, knowing which one would help. They may |
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> have heard of this issue before. |
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> To, OP. I was hoping you found a solution. Maybe you will at some |
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> point, You have certainly eliminated a lot of potential causes. I |
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> can't recall if you have or not, have you tried a different version of |
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> the kernel? In the past, I've upgraded to a new kernel and it be |
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> buggy. I go back to a older version until I see a new update then try |
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> again. Generally it works. Don't know if it was a kernel bug or just |
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> some stray code that something didn't like but . . . |
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I've been running on my (no longer quite so) new box since about last |
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August. I don't recall crashes from that long ago, though that could be |
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to do with my memory. |
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I've just configured and build a 4.17.0 kernel (thanks for the |
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suggestion!), having previously been running on 4.15.15 for quite some |
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time. Maybe this will help. We'll see. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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