techsupport @lemmy.world fenrasulfr @lemmy.world 7 mo. ago

Something is seriously wrong with my desktop.

I am pretty sure I pissed of some eldritch deity because I have been chasing this laggy feeling I had with my pc for 2 months.

But in the past few days my desktop was getting very slow during installationand general use. At the same time my HDD activity indicator would be on all the time. Turning off the pc would shut it down and a few seconds later restart.

So I switched out Fedora for Pop OS and everything went fine for half a day and the problemen came back again.

When turning off the pc, right now, I got what you see in the picture.

So I would like to ask do I need to hire an exorcist or is hardware borked in someway?

Any help would be greatly appreciatie, so I would like to thank anyone even willing to look at my post.

EDIT: Well for anyone still interested, apparently it was something in the 6.5 series kernals that made my pc behave weird because with 6.6 kernal all of the problems vanished. I want to thank everyone again for all the suggestion and help diagnosing my problem.

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My guess, your PC is overheating or something wrong with your HDD..

One of the main reasons why PCs overheat is dust, when was the last time your opened the case and cleared fans and the motherboard from dust ?

Second : your HDD might moved outside it's slot, this happens with Rams especially, when electricity passes thru the motherboard to these parts for months or years, it causes them to be pushed out of their slots, just slightly you won't notice it until you push them back in, but before you do that, make sure to avoid ESD, unless you wanna fry your motherboard and CPU

Third : something might be wrong with SATA cables, these things get damaged just by heat generated by electricity
- Thank you for your response. I don't think it is heat. The systeme in total is at 29°c and my cpu, under stress test, highest recordeded temp is 83°c (not great but it shouldn't destroy the cpu). I will try reseating my sata cables and ram.

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