Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Clutterfreak Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: Linux Crashing Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 22:50:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <6151F64B.6CEE@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 03:50:36 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="30253"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.1.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:o9hfMGn5SGHONmn2B7dhoBJBriU= X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLTXgrB+jwL2F3Jg6fUDdXW1ueOEEwtafWgA6du/VepMcEl1WTX8NTJZfe8l1IYxJN/kM4FSc= Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 210927-4, 9/27/2021), Outbound message In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4452 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594740 sci.physics:833175 On 9/27/2021 8:44 PM, RabidHussar wrote: > On 2021-09-27 4:38 p.m., Clutterfreak wrote: >> On 9/27/2021 12:33 PM, 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. >>> >> >> Problem was in HD. I replaced it with my older one with win10 on it >> and it has started to work fine. All memory sticks (3 sticks of 8g >> each) work without any problems, and they are error correcting ones. >> >> It had win10 on it when I got the computer from craigslist ($75). I >> kept using it as it was until yesterday morning when it started to >> make beeping sounds at turn on but with some tries it would boot. > > Speaking of beeps, the Seagate external HD I _just_ bought like a month > ago is already beeping and making an ass of itself. That company can't > produce quality no matter what they do. > > > Both the bad HD and the older one that works for now are also Seagate :) But internal. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus