On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 19:56 +0100, Polarian wrote: > I have found that the most common cause for random lock ups are memory > issues. Hi, I experienced such random lockups usually with broken HDDs. On one of my machines I experienced such an issue with some GTK software. It looked like a defective SSD, but it was a software issue. Only one time I had broken memory and that time the issue was signaled by POST. The machine couldn't go beyond POST. Since the machine didn't cause problems for around six weeks, I would take a look at pacman.log and e.g. downgrade the kernel. I'm not a fan of memtest, however running memtest is a starting point. On my new machine I installed chaotic-aur/memtest86-efi version 10+, alternatively I would use a 10+ life media. Every now and then nothing is broken. Sometimes only a cable, a card or a RAM needs to be plugged in again. I would also take a look at available BIOS and other firmware updates and read the changelogs, if updates should be available. Regards, Ralf
