Tim: >> So, come OS install and update times, I tend to open a box, inspect >> heatsinks, clean it, and reseat all the connections. Having a spare >> power supply to swap over is handy, too. They don't always age >> well, especially the bargain basement types. > Joe Zeff: > Have you ever used a gravity-assist to reseat everything at once? Ha ha, no. But I have seen another guy pick up a boom box and bang it on the table several times until an intermittent went away. A friend gave me his expensive graphics card that had died. He got pissed off with his PC and punched it and threw it around on the concrete floor. The case was amusingly dented, and a transistor fell off the graphics card. I soldered it back on and it worked fine. It could well have been the cause of all his woes, being badly soldered on in the first place, and intermittently failing. He'd given me another graphics card before that had overheated when its cooling fan seized, then the heat melted the plastic fan. I just aimed a case mounted fan, it worked fine for many years that way until I retired the system for being ancient and slow compared to current hardware. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 6.2.15-100.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu May 11 16:51:53 UTC 2023 x86_64 -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
