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On Sunday, 20 May 2018 21:54:32 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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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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I have found with Asus their firmware releases tend to get more stable with |
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time. Initially they come out thick and fast before they gradually slow down |
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and then stop, probably because they have moved their devs to later and |
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greater models. If I suspect the firmware, I always update it first before I |
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look at other reasons. However, first I have a look at the changelog. Some |
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updates are for functionality or peripherals I do not use/need. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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