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On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, at 18:14, Felix Miata wrote:
> Bob Crochelt composed on 2022-01-26 17:25 (UTC-0800):
> 
> > inxi output attached.  
> 
> Your iMac's BIOS date is about a month earlier than mine. Likely the only
> difference between ours is you have G92M [GeForce 8800M GTS] while I have
> RV630/M76 [Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT/2700]. If yours is anything like mine, it
> generates a lot of heat. Has yours ever had an internal cleaning? It may need its
> heat sink compound on CPU and/or GPU replaced. System freezes are a common symptom
> of overheating. Also, RAM is subject to failure with age and overheating. Have you
> tried running memtest86?
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> Felix Miata
> 
Hi again Felix,
I've thought about cleaning the machine, and watched videos of opening one of these up, and am intimidated by it.  Looks beyond my abilities.  Redoing the heat sink compound probably is.  I've lived in small rural communities that don't have computer services readily available.  I could look for an apple place or take it to the nearest apple store, since that is closer to where I live now.  hard drive is old too so would probably change that out too.  
Machine ran without difficulty overnight, and got through a teams meeting this morning without problem, running gnome on Wayland.  Perhaps that is the way forward.
Tried to run memtest86 from the grub menu but it just seemed to sit there, will try that again today.  
thanks
Bob Crochelt

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system freeze older iMac Debian 11 "Robert F. Crochelt" <rfc56@fastmail.com> - 2022-01-27 02:00 +0100
  Re: system freeze older iMac Debian 11 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-01-27 02:20 +0100
    Re: system freeze older iMac Debian 11 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-01-27 03:20 +0100
      Re: system freeze older iMac Debian 11 "Bob Crochelt" <rfc56@fastmail.com> - 2022-01-27 17:30 +0100
        Re: system freeze older iMac Debian 11 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-01-27 17:50 +0100
        Re: system freeze older iMac Debian 11 "Bob Crochelt" <rfc56@fastmail.com> - 2022-01-27 18:10 +0100
        Re: system freeze older iMac Debian 11 "Robert F. Crochelt" <rfc56@fastmail.com> - 2022-02-15 01:40 +0100
  Re: system freeze older iMac Debian 11 Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-27 06:40 +0100
    Re: system freeze older iMac Debian 11 "Bob Crochelt" <rfc56@fastmail.com> - 2022-01-27 17:30 +0100

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