Today is National Bluebird of Happiness Day (among many others). It is also a day of trying to diagnose why my old (circa 2014) workstation has started freezing up more frequently. A lot of Elephants have been raised here lately. This referring to the built in linux rescue to reboot.
Alt SysRq + R
Alt SysRq + E
Alt SysRq + I
Alt SysRq + S
Alt SysRq + U
Alt SysRq + B
I've tested memory, CPU, and GPU. All seem ok. Using y-cruncher, the CPU never goes above 65.0℃ (the idle temp is 35℃). I keep htop running but when the system freezes, htop freezes as well. I am loth to buy new or build new.
Is it time to change out thermal paste?
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Any suggestions (nice suggestions)?
System: Dell Workstation T-1700
Linux Mint 22.3
Intel i7-4770 CPU
Quadro K2000 graphics
32Gb memory
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