The computer chucked another wobbly today while I was at work. I came home to find it frozen.
I’m beginning to wonder if it’s a hardware issue. The two obvious fingers to point at are the motherboard and the CPU. CPUs don’t generally stuff up unless they’ve overheated, and this one has never overheated. The motherboard should also be in perfect condition - it’s 100% solid caps and designed for extreme overclocking, so it should be able to last for donkey’s years.
I might try manually setting a CPU voltage; at the moment, the motherboard works out an appropriate voltage. It might be slipping downwards?
I’m also thinking of writing a daemon that monitors absolutely every aspect of your computer; all the sensor information, memory and CPU use, kernel messages, absolutely all the logs I can find. Maybe then I’ll be able to work out what the problem is, and in the end I’ll have a great troubleshooting program!
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I know that your power supply is brand-new, but maybe checking it with a voltometer… I know that I had a bad PS a few months back and it caused a lot of instability in the system — seemingly random lockups, etc. This can be especially critical in a overclocked system (not that I have to tell you that) but it’s worth looking into!
Thanks for your help, Dan. I was getting the freezes with my old 500w power supply and I’m still getting them with a new 620w power supply. Both are brand names (Antec and Corsair) and the computer as it stands now should be drawing about 420w (less with the old Antec power supply as I put in another HDD at the same time as the Noctua and the Corsair PSU).
The computer’s been rock solid in the last couple of days; I compiled a new version of Mplayer and used that for ripping. I’ve also been using only two optical drives at a time rather than all three, although neither of those things should explain the freezing during the actual encoding stage?
Hmm, unusual to say the least.
I know that I had an issue with the last kernel included with Intrepid… caused some real instability on my system, which I could never quite pin down. Unfortunately, I doubt that’s something that would impact you.
Are the drives PATA or SATA? There could be a bad cable in there — or maybe a break in one of the wires that only shows itself occasionally…?
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