Re: CPU errors

Dan Kortschak via linux-aus <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:10:48 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.australia
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2025-02-04 at 12:32 +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> By "black screen" do you mean the entire screen is black or that it
> is in
> black and white text displaying a panic message?
> 
> If the former then why do you think it's a CPU error not an error
> with
> corrupted RAM, video hardware, or any the other things?
> 
> Any mysterious crash could be a CPU error, but problems with RAM,
> motherboard,
> etc are more likely.  It's a pity that it's almost impossible to get
> a laptop
> with ECC RAM.

I mean a kernel panic. Yes, it could be memory (I vaguely recall
running a mem check years ago). The fact that the panic message is
always the same was what made me think it was a CPU issue.


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