On 7/19/19 2:48 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death "jdm" <j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk>, > 19.07.2019, 07:28: > > > I have updated firmware line in kernel as this now includes a few extra > > lines so not loading all of the available firmware. > > > Thanks for advice and I'll see how I get on. > > Can you trigger the crash by (over-)exerting the system? > > A few years ago I had a box with 4x4GB of RAM and a similar > crash only occurred during heavy load, say recompiling gcc > with -j 9. Turned out that _two_ of the four RAM modules were > faulty. And statistical evidence led me to the conclusion > that those were only used when the first 8GB were exhausted. > > If you can spare the box for a day, boot into memtest and > let it run for at least 12 hours. > > s.
Also, check if you have cpu isolation turned off in your kernel - when its on causes this type of crash. Bill K.
