I just had a similar issue with a workstation. For 2 years, it would randomly crash or lock up. It might happen once then not again for week, maybe month or it would happen every day, even multiple times a day, for a week. There was no patten.
After a bios upgrade and multiple memory tests the only thing left was the motherboard and indeed that is what is was. 7 years is decent run for a laptop so it might be time to replace the hardware.
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Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
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Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2024 8:32:41 AM
Subject: [PLUG] File System Corruption
I've got an occasional catastrophic problem with a Dell Laptop,
and I'm hoping someone on this list can steer me to a possible
solution.
The system:
- Dell E7250 laptop, circa 2017
- i5 CPU
- 8 GBytes RAM (soldered in place... not a DIMM)
- 1 TByte M.2 SATA disk using ext4 file system
- Gentoo stable with "gentoo-sources" monolithic kernel
The Problem:
- Disk corruption which removes entire subdirectories, yielding
unstable behavior
- Problem recurs every few months, unpredictably
Other Data:
- I'm a long-time Gentoo user. I have several other Gentoo
systems and have NEVER had disk problems. I don't think it's a
driver-related problem.
- Does not seem to be heat-related since the errors don't seem
to be triggered by extended operation
- All diagnostics are good (Dell internal diagnostics in ROM,
Memtest-86, etc)
- FSCK can usually repair the damage
- Laptop is lightly used and rarely transported
Diagnostic Work so Far:
- Swapped M.2 disk
- Ran Memtest-86 for hours
Anybody got any ideas what may be happening and what I might be
able to do about it?
TIA!
Casey
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