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This kept happening to me for a while. In my case, overheating.
Solved by removing a large glob of dust from in between
the cooling fins on the back of the graphics card processor and
the sheet-metal cover the Nvidia had placed across it and the fan.
Took me weeks to work out :-( and seconds to fix once I had.
BW
Rod
On 25/04/2020 08:29, Gordon Henderson wrote:On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Mark Andrew Smith via list wrote:On 24/04/2020 10:10, Tom via list wrote:Last night my laptop stopped dead - blank screen no response to anything. I powered it off and back on again and set a full backup running. This morning I started checking the logs but no indication of what happened. Nothing! Any clues as to how and try and track this down. Tom te tom te tomI'm guessing that your backup logs overwrote your "real" logs and wiped the evidence of what happened.I read Toms message as Taook a backup when he next booted the Laptop and not Restoring from a backup PC stops dead == No logs because a stopped CPU can't write logs. Hardware or software problem? Who knows. It happens from time to time on my desktop but it's almost always when I'm running Shotwell to import videos from my camera, (so now I run that on a laptop and copy the files over) - is there some issue with the FUSE filesystem and SATA/SSD writes or... ? Power supply, overheating, or ... Who knows. GordonGordon's reply triggered a memory. I had this on two laptops and and one desktop machine some years ago. All machines failed in a couple of days. It was due to overheating. Cleaning out all machines, (de-fluff the fans and filters cured it.
-- ---------- Treweythyow yw restrennow serghys y'n furvas Skrifen Igor (*.odt po *.ods). Prag? Drefen na gregi war unn kowethas hepken rag dhrehedhes ow resyow yn termyn a dheu. Gwel: https://www.documentliberation.org/ Martesen a lavarro MS-Office 'restren gans fowt' rag digolenni homma mes ev a wrello igeri an restren(now) yn despit dhe henna. Attached files are likely to be open-document format (*.odt or *.ods). Why? So as not to depend on one company for accessing my own data in future. See: https://www.documentliberation.org/ MS-Office may say 'damaged file' to discourage this but should open the attachment(s) anyway. ---------- Rod Sheaff 'Dunsland', Barn Street, Liskeard, Kernow / Cornwall PL14 4BL UK Ebost: rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Pellgowser: 01579 345674
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