OT: Weird Hardware Problem

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 2:08 AM Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:

> On 5/19/20 5:48 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 2020-05-19 11:45, David Christensen wrote:
> >> On 2020-05-19 11:32, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> >>> On 5/19/20 1:23 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I have not seen these suggestions yet:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1.  Have you tried connecting the system drive to another port?
> >>>>
> >>>> 2.  Have you tried replacing the SATA cable?
> >>>>
> >>>> 3.  Have you tried replacing the system drive?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 1. and 2. are next on my list of things to try.
> >>>
> >>> I did try 3. albeit with the same SATA cable and port - no difference.
> >>
> >> Another:
> >>
> >> 4.  Have you tried installing an HBA and connecting the system drive to
> that?
> >>
> >> 5.  Have you tried resetting the CMOS settings to defaults via Setup?
> Via the motherboard jumper?
> >
> > Another:
> >
> > 6.  Open multiple terminals, say by booting the machine with a live
> distribution with a graphical desktop or by using another machine with a
> graphical desktop, opening multiple terminals, and connecting via SSH. In
> one terminal, issue commands or run programs to exercise the HDD/ SSD --
> 'dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1k', 'dd if=foo of=/dev/null bs=1M',
> etc..  In another terminal, watch for kernel error messages -- via dmesg(1)
> or files in /var/log.   (I have more practice doing this on Debian.)
> >
> >
> > David
> >
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>
> That's fine idea, actually.  I have a nice heavyweight compile job I can
> run in
> parallel in docker containers and watch to see what error output looks like
>
> --



Another idea may be applied if you can find a thermal camera .

During computer working loaded heavily , you may inspect mother board ,
cables , or  other related parts , carefully with a thermal camera .

If any point on a circuit connection line , or a circuit component , there
is (are) significantly hot point(s) ,
it may be likely that such point(s)  is ( are ) causing cracks or loose
connection(s)  separated to discontinue the current sufficiently
long time to cause a boot ( i.e. , reset ) the computer .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk