Hello, Dale On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 13:51:24 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Dale.
> > Sorry for not replying earlier, I've had a rotten week. > >> Dale > No problem. I have my days too. :/ > Did you find the problem and get it fixed? Just curious. I haven't found or fixed the problem, no. I took the cover off my machine to check for dust, but there was suspiciously little there (the machine had been in use for ~9 months at the time). I was interested to hear that John gets the same problem, with the same CPU (an early Ryzen 1700X) and the same make of motherboard (an Asus X370). When I say "interested", I really mean "disheartened". It sounds like a problem with the processor or the motherboard, or (even worse), the interaction between the two. It seems the problem only happens when Linux (not Windows) is running, and I didn't managed to find anything in the logs, either, with a brief search. The machine isn't overheating, or anything like that. Besides, the crashes happen at random, usually with low machine load, not whilst I'm building LibreOffice. It actually rebooted during booting a week or so ago, and if I recall correctly, none of the kernel's booting messages had yet appeared on the screen. That suggests, though vaguely, that the MB is at fault. The shop I bouught everything from seems to have gone out of business, with both its telephone number and its website having been down for a sustained period. So I'm unlikely to be able to get the processor exchanged for an unbuggy one. Shelling out for a new processor out of my own pocket seems too much of a long shot to justify the money (~400 Euros) and the time. So it's looking like I'm not going to be getting the problem fixed any time soon. :-( Thanks to you, and everybody else, for all the help and suggestions. > Dale > :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
