On Thu, Jan 27, 2022, at 08:24, Bob Crochelt wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, at 18:14, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Bob Crochelt composed on 2022-01-26 17:25 (UTC-0800):
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>> > inxi output attached.
>>
>> Your iMac's BIOS date is about a month earlier than mine. Likely the only
>> difference between ours is you have G92M [GeForce 8800M GTS] while I have
>> RV630/M76 [Mobility Radeon HD 2600 XT/2700]. If yours is anything like mine,
>> it
>> generates a lot of heat. Has yours ever had an internal cleaning? It may
>> need its
>> heat sink compound on CPU and/or GPU replaced. System freezes are a common
>> symptom
>> of overheating. Also, RAM is subject to failure with age and overheating.
>> Have you
>> tried running memtest86?
>> --
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>> based on faith, not based on science.
>>
>> Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
>>
>> Felix Miata
>>
> Hi again Felix,
> I've thought about cleaning the machine, and watched videos of opening one of
> these up, and am intimidated by it. Looks beyond my abilities. Redoing the
> heat sink compound probably is. I've lived in small rural communities that
> don't have computer services readily available. I could look for an apple
> place or take it to the nearest apple store, since that is closer to where I
> live now. hard drive is old too so would probably change that out too.
> Machine ran without difficulty overnight, and got through a teams meeting
> this morning without problem, running gnome on Wayland. Perhaps that is the
> way forward.
> Tried to run memtest86 from the grub menu but it just seemed to sit there,
> will try that again today.
> thanks
> Bob Crochelt
Also, running teams and assorted other programs, CPU temps were 102-103 C.
Bob
