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On 4/17/22 11:06, Jude DaShiell wrote: |
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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 |
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problem, then your shutdowns would be due to overheating. Depending on |
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the particular motherboard/CPU combination, it should be possible for |
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someone to remove the fan and heat sink from the CPU, clean off the old |
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compound, and replace the heat sink using new thermal compound. I don't |
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know if there is any way for you to monitor the CPU temperature or at |
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least get a warning if that is the 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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Jack |