Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 13:55:20 -0500 Message-ID: <615213BA.5009@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:55:54 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: Linux Crashing References: <6151F64B.6CEE@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 210927-0, 09/26/2021), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 77 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-h3mnxxCSDWQMVbrtoro0qCU+RGgVd1Y+sbkKPVQPVFwrz+8RLqInwXSsr8mmD2sXNhxOOpbxOIFoRl8!npgAoGtXqhixk6Nke/4GL+oYMEnr1X+B8lC/e4HaIua66/sxKrrMJqV5XBv4tGh5iku5mcQ/QPbq!0AbWnnq3XfY= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3831 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4440 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594691 sci.physics:833152 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5675 @ 3.07GHz 3.06 GHz???? You can buy that chip on ebay for under twenty dollars!!! and if you look real hard, they'll throw in the whole computer for 20 dollars.... if it doesn't run flight simulator 2020...take it to the back of the barn and shoot it! build this: Intel Core i9-10900K (5.3 GHz, 20 MB cache, 10 cores) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (24 GB GDDR6) 64 GB HyperX DDR4-3200 XMP RGB SDRAM Come on, come on...give it up, How much memory you got now? The Natural Philosopher wrote: > > On 27/09/2021 17:50, The Starmaker wrote: > > Clutterfreak wrote: > >> > >> I've installed Linux Mint XFCE on my desktop but it crashes less than > >> one minute after each booting. > >> > >> Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5675 @ 3.07GHz 3.06 GHz > > > > Xeon???? garbage. > > > It works. It shouldn't crash. > > Online docs say Xeon should work, but is an unusual choice for a desktop. > > Takes ECC RAM? > > Online docs stay X5675 was 2011 chip, now discontinued, so this is no > spanking new computer. It's old and may well have 'issues'. > > It was in its day a $1400 CPU. capable of addressing over 200GB of RAM Wow! > > I am with clutterfreak. If someone handed me one of those i'd want to > get it working as well. > > My guess is he has an old server that's been tossed out because it no > longer works and is too old to be worth fixing. > > Experience suggest its got dead ram or an iffy processor (if the fan has > failed they can cook) or another chip has failed. > > Mmm I never thought of a dead fan. I had a sparc sent in that used to > fail after 20 minutes regular as clockwork, but always booted the next > morning. CPU fan had died. Got another one sent in... fan had died but > so too had the CPU...wasn't really worth fixing. stripped out the ram > and disk and put it in a new one and charged the customer what it cost... > > So Mr Clutterfreak > Tell us more about where this came from and what state it is in. > Does the CPU fan shift air? > Does it pass memtest 86? > Has it got the correct RAM in it? > > The good news is that if you find and fix the hardware problem you may > well find the installed linux will then run just fine > > but if the mb or cpu have gone dead, toss it. > > -- > "What do you think about Gay Marriage?" > "I don't." > "Don't what?" > "Think about Gay Marriage." -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.