Problem: my desktop system hangs. Question: what to do next

[Mel Wilson]

On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 09:46 -0400, dbmacg-HLeSyJ3qPdM at public.gmane.org wrote:
> About possible overtemp problem:
> I have an AMD AM2 motherboard, with a dual-processor CPU. After a number
> of system hangs, I toook a look inside the box, and found that the
> heatsink/fan assembly was no longer held tightly to the CPU. It seems the
> plastic heatsink-holder that went around the CPU was broken, and the
> heatsink clip could no hold the assembly tightly to the CPU.

Thanks.  (Did you post about this before?)  Following something I
remembered from the list, I tried that.  Thought I would put in a little
more heat-sink compound and see.  Broke a fastener before I learned how
the fan/heatsink came off.  That's how the retailer got a second look.
In this instance, the physical connection turned out to be pretty solid.

The whole saga has been one d*mn thing after another.  Sometime I'll
have to do an organized test to see whether uninstalling the Ubuntu One
package means you'll never get past the login screen again.  Got a new
hard drive for the re-install so that I wouldn't risk my existing data.
In the shop saw obvious corrosion on filter caps on the existing
motherboard, so got a new motherboard along with the new disk, and
replaced the power supply, which was quite a few years old.

William Park suggests power troubles -- should I cook up something with
an Arduino or some comparators and a DSO?  I suppose that could be done.

	Mel.


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