On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 1:44 PM Jack Craig jack.craig.aptos@gmail.com wrote:
afaik know power isnt a problem, but on posting did suggest that.
the 32 GB memory is new.
Are you running nvidia graphics with nouveau? Because nvidia doesn't
sadly i am. what is a solidly supported nvidia alternative? geforce 730
this nvidia is my number 1 candidate so far...
thx for reply, jackc...
So far my gt730 with gddr5 seems to work just fine with the nvidia driver, so that should be solid. I think I am 2-3 kernels back from the most recent. Mine is the version from rpmfusion. I don't believe I ran the open source driver for very long.
32gb is enough that you should not have any issues with swapping.
I have not had a lot of luck getting crash dumps to work on my crashing machine, but if it is a real hardware crash often they just reset at the bios level and they don't crash dump.
ctrl-alt-f[1/2/3/4/5] will get you from graphics to virt console assuming it is not dead.
when it crashes does it stay locked up? if it does switch to a text console after you logout and the kernel crash message may still be on the screen in the morning.