is my power supply dieing?

[Michael]

thanks for shaaring your experiances with me!

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:58 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
> That is about how my laptop was acting using the i915 driver vs. the intel kernel mode driver...  Maybe make sure you're not using that, by default you shouldn't. I ended up with it trying to make prime gpu switching work.
>
> It could be gpu related still, most browsers use hardware acceleration that could be hitting it.
>
> Try running glx-gears for a while in full-screen to see how it acts if it dies when heating up.
>
> I also had an older system that was locking up seemingly whenever I'd hit the graphics.  Turns out the gpu fan went bad, with ambient case fans keeping it cool enough off the heatsink, but watching a movie or something that hit the gpu, it would crash.  Tearing it open it was then obvious the fan wasn't working.  Of course I couldn't find a fan that fit the stupid thing, so I ended up buying a new gpu for it, all was well.
>
> Only ever had one PSU that got wonky on me to crash intermittently in some 25 years of building pc's, but it happens...
>
> Also, boot up and in grub run memtestx86 on it, bad memory sectors can cause grief too with intermittent locks, usually the more ram you invoke, you'll hit the bad spot.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 9:36 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> you know.... it seems that the first time of the day I start it it
>> runs a few minutes and then freezes. but upon subsequent restarts
>> everything is good.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:18 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I have ssh installed on my system but to ssh into another system you
>> > need ssh-server installed on your computer but I can't find it. I
>> > guess I'm wrong. What else do you need installed?
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:03 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I think my issue might also be grafix related because when it first
>> > > started doing this the dark areas on my desktop picture would turn
>> > > blue when it froze. I do have another system. Could you walk me
>> > > through solving the problem?
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 11:11 AM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
>> > > <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > It really could be about anything, hardware or software.  Unplug everything unnecessary, even usb things, and just see if it locks up then.  I've had psu's do this, video cards, ram, even usb devices cause weird hardware-ish problems.  Check dmesg and /var/log as well for errors/events, could indicate a flaky device.
>> > > >
>> > > > Also software - upgrading ram recently, I also updated my system since I had to reboot anyways, and my pc began locking up every 2 days.  I thought the new ram perhaps was bad, but memtest looked ok.  It took some digging, but guess I picked up a bug in using an old intel graphics driver inadvertently, removed that driver, and I've had 70 days of uptime since.
>> > > >
>> > > > I had to get a bit creative to diag this, including sshing into it from another system when it did lock up.  Turns out it was graphics related, just the display froze, but the system worked otherwise headless.  This led me to investigate graphics as a source of the lockups to fix at a driver level.  If you have another system available, I'd suggest that.
>> > > >
>> > > > -mb
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 6:36 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> > > >>
>> > > >> sometimes my computer freezes. is iut the power supply?
>> > > >>
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