On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 7:20 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 9:04 AM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:darn....... it just rebooted on its own. lovely:( well, it was fixed for fourteen days at least.On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 1:07 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:Ok, thanks.On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 11:26 PM Donald Mac McCarthy <mac@oscontext.com> wrote:CLI CDRW is not something that I have done - I can't remember the burner software I used. I told it the ISO and it burned and closed the disc. I am travelling at the moment, so when I get home I will look. As for the nomenclature of the device, in RHEL land it is usually labelled as /dev/cdrom{0-9}
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Michael wrote on 10/5/19 6:54 PM:
also what is the rw listed as? /dev/sdc? if that is so I would issue the command 'sudo dd if=memtest86-usb.img of=/dev/sdc'.... right?
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 9:34 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:well.... it seems blowing it fixed it. thank goodness! my cdrom is not working and I don't recall if it boots to the USBCDRW. I seem to remember that it was booting from a thumb drive last year (if I remember correctly).... or was it the USBCDRW.... hmmmmm..... hey ET... how do I write the image to the usbcdrw?On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:12 PM Donald Mac McCarthy <mac@oscontext.com> wrote:I have had that happen before when a BIOS only partially supports boot from USB. Have you booted from USB on that system before?
Do you have a CD you could burn the iso to and try. That sounds so... old fashioned, but I have a couple of 10 yr old dell workstations that don't properly USB boot that I used before I discovered I could replace them with a couple of RasPis.
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Michael wrote on 10/3/19 3:47 PM:
Yepers.... just notes.
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:03 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:No, just notes. at least from the looks of them.On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 8:05 AM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:Are those your passwords on the sticky notes?---------------------------------------------------On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 4:53 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:what a mess my computer desk isOn Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 7:50 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:36 PM <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:> what do you advise I do...
Call Geek Squad? 8)
Can you send me a picture of the screen you get?
Memetest is (or was) prtty straight forward.
Even *I* could use it! ;-)
ET
Michael writes:
> Okay e t I bought a USB drive and ran the command 2 put the memtest on it
> but when I boot it gets to verifying DMI pool and just sits . I've had a
> going for about 15 minutes and nothing's happened what do you advise I do
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2019, 6:38 AM <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>
>> You only need 500MG.
>> A USB HD that size will be cheaper than the can of air.
>> Buy one too!
>> ET
>>
>>
>> Michael writes:
>>
>> > all the fans are working. I'll try the memtest.... I don't have a spare
>> usb
>> > drive large enough.....
>> > $ sudo dd if=memtest86-usb.img of=/dev/sdc
>> > dd: writing to '/dev/sdc': No space left on device
>> > 128001+0 records in
>> > 128000+0 records out
>> > 65536000 bytes (66 MB, 62 MiB) copied, 21.5638 s, 3.0 MB/s
>> > bmike1@MikesBeast:/tmp$
>> > I'll take care of it tomorrow
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:48 PM <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I agree that heat is a big suspect, but it could also be some creative
>> >> video
>> >> driver or a bad memory.
>> >> Give memtest a try:
>> >> https://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-usb.zip
>> >> ET
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Matthew Crews writes:
>> >>
>> >> > On 9/28/19 4:31 PM, Michael wrote:
>> >> >> Thank you so much for the help I really truly appreciate it.
>> >> >
>> >> > No problem, its what we are here for.
>> >> >
>> >> >> Does it reboot while you are using it? Are you using very
>> intensive
>> >> >> applications on it, or very not-intensive applications?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So far it has only only reboot. after I load Chrome. And it doesn't
>> >> >> happen all the time usually it will load the Chrome and it will
>> reboot
>> >> >> then open it again and then it will be fine.
>> >> >
>> >> > Chrome is notoriously resource intensive. Maybe give Chromium or
>> Firefox
>> >> > a try.
>> >> >
>> >> > But based on that answer I'm leaning towards a fan failure first. As
>> you
>> >> > said you are currently in Miami, so when you get back definitely check
>> >> that.
>> >> >
>> >> > Could also be simple dust accumulation, something a can of air can
>> fix.
>> >> > That is something that is obvious to see when you look.
>> >> >
>> >> > There are a few other possible things to check, but lets rule out the
>> >> > simple stuff first before we dive deeper.
>> >> >
>> >> > -Matt
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