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I reinstalled because I don't know what I'm doing. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by PriorityMotif@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been facing issues lately. A few weeks ago I kept having "lockups" where the keyboard and mouse would stop working. It turns out my crappy mouse was causing all USB ports to stop working. I noticed that the PC would still go to sleep and the clock was still working.

Yesterday I was having a weird issue with a site where I couldn't download files. It worked on every other device I own so I decided to restart. After restart the PC would boot to a black screen. The actual monitor was still on just not displaying.

I already back up my home folder to a second drive automatically so after searching for an answer to this issue and finding nothing I just decided to switch to fedora and see what that's all about.

It seems like it's one thing after another lately and I just needed to use my PC. I guess a fresh install every once in awhile isn't a bad thing.

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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How old is this hardware you're installing on? I've had similar issues on my last install using a totally cursed lvm setup involving 3 HDDs, 2 SSDs, and an SD card that was apparently not up to the task.

Once the SD card went bad any time I'd try to access it my filesystem would fail and I'd have to fsck after a reboot. Couldn't take the SD card out of the array though, it was full too the brim so I didn't have the knowledge needed to remove it correctly. Ended up just nuking the system and restoring from backup without the SD card involved.

Anyway the download issue might be worth following up on.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It's a ryzen 3400g with 16gb ddr4 ram and a fairly new nvme ssd. Although I do have a really old 1.5tb drive acting as the backup drive. I've been looking at cloud backup solutions in case that dies.