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

[William Park]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:19:43AM -0400, Mel Wilson wrote:
> 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.

If you replaced motherboard, disk, and power supplies, then what about
memory?  After that, the only thing left is cpu, which is unlikely but
could happen.  
-- 
William
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