Finally nuked my Linux install. Where to go next.

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So just had yet another absolute freeze up on the W11 box. Mouse wouldn't move keyboard didn't work alt+f4 did nothing. Also noted the time didn't refresh. Watched it for a few and tried button mashing, pressing buttons on the wired game pad, moving mouse and checking the time. Evidently it was frozen for about 20 minutes according to the stopped clock in the system tray.

The kicker? I was using a live fedora 42 ISO this time and this behavior somewhat mirrors the freezing I've had in windows and the circumstances where I've left the thing idle for a few.

So now I'm starting to wonder if it's a hardware fault all along. Maybe sleep or power issue going into screen off. Possibly. Instability with the CPU? It is a first generation ryzen.

I/O problem? But wouldn't freeze the system tray clock I wouldn't think. Hmmm what else that both a W11 install and isolated live fedora environment could have a common connection (even if W11 was technically not running, although not entirely sure on this one...) ram.

Or there is some kind of fault somewhere in the mobo.

The CPU and RAM are a common bond ugh. So now I'm wondering. I might have another identical set of sticks in the old Linux build.

System is pretty old. Memtest could check things out. Wonder if I should even bother.

1st gen ryzen was notorious for USB issues. I don't recall if it was ever fully fixed on the early boards. At that time I was running 1st gen Threadripper and didn't seem to have any USB issues so I didn't follow it very closely.

 

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1st gen ryzen was notorious for USB issues. I don't recall if it was ever fully fixed on the early boards. At that time I was running 1st gen Threadripper and didn't seem to have any USB issues so I didn't follow it very closely.

I did have a passing thought about it might be an I/O issue where something was disconnected during idle. I was not aware of a possibility of USB issues with ryzen, only it being picky with ram and such.

Sigh...

This is an old system that I recently stated to try to use a long time after it was built because the computer in the first post got borked during an update.

I did go to the ASRock site and did note there are beta firmware updates and I actually downloaded the latest (.43 file?) but haven't gone through with it as I didn't want to risk a brick or locking out of the computer all together.

Maybe it's my cue to just part ways with this hardware instead of chasing ghost on the unsupported setup.

Mainly power on this box on in case I want to game casually, otherwise it's pretty much a media consumption rig.

Steam deck LCD on sale right now... 🤔