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Hello, Dale |
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 13:51:24 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hello, Dale. |
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> > Sorry for not replying earlier, I've had a rotten week. |
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> >> Dale |
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> No problem. I have my days too. :/ |
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> Did you find the problem and get it fixed? Just curious. |
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I haven't found or fixed the problem, no. I took the cover off my |
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machine to check for dust, but there was suspiciously little there (the |
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machine had been in use for ~9 months at the time). |
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I was interested to hear that John gets the same problem, with the same |
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CPU (an early Ryzen 1700X) and the same make of motherboard (an Asus |
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X370). When I say "interested", I really mean "disheartened". It sounds |
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like a problem with the processor or the motherboard, or (even worse), |
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the interaction between the two. It seems the problem only happens when |
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Linux (not Windows) is running, and I didn't managed to find anything in |
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the logs, either, with a brief search. |
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The machine isn't overheating, or anything like that. Besides, the |
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crashes happen at random, usually with low machine load, not whilst I'm |
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building LibreOffice. It actually rebooted during booting a week or so |
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ago, and if I recall correctly, none of the kernel's booting messages had |
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yet appeared on the screen. That suggests, though vaguely, that the MB |
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is at fault. |
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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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Thanks to you, and everybody else, for all the help and suggestions. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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