PC shutting down

MB / PSU?

Do you have spares to try swapping?

Unfortunately I know nothing about the Shuttle or AMD chips on it. However, the symptoms are almost identical with those I experienced on my wife’s NUC. This led me round the houses on various issues.

a) Check your bios power ‘saving’ settings a Mint update may have maliciously altered it. Do not forget power saving on your usb equipment needs to go off.

b) Check that you have the latest mobo/chipset drivers installed. These have nothing to do with Mint and normally get installed at the UEFI level

c) Start in safe mode (normally press left=shift while booting. A Grub menu should appear. Select recovery mode. Then work through the various options

I normally do fsck first to make sure the drive structure is not stuffed. The one you should really do is dpkg.

Now the bad news NONE of these worked for me, despite finding out that Intel had an issue with Win10, and that the Kingston SSD was apparently OK. In fact I later since discovered that there is a real incompatibility somewhere in the Kingston hardware and Windows 10. Replacing the drive cured things for me.

I’m on the side of hardware being an issue. My daughter’s PC had a memory module go sick and after a number of such issues it managed to take the disk drive with it at which point I delved into it a little more deeply. In several other cases it was the motherboard itself, but to be honest it can be almost any item of hardware, if you can find it sooner then collateral damage can be limited and can thus be cheaper.

On a similar and completely unrelated subject, I had a second garage look at my troublesome car, they say it was a wiring problem with a worn wire or wires which they have replaced with a new section of loom to replace the faulty issue. I hope so, the computer analysis was never ringing quite true – there is that damned word again – computer. After all the spare parts and labour I hope this is an end to the issues, which on reflection, always sounded and felt more like an electrical issue. than a mechanical one

The mechanic is Hungarian and I am told he is apparently rather good at finding and fixing such problems, I just hope the stories are true. His training was at the school of, if you want a spare part make it yourself as they are out of stock until next January 12 month. [/quote]

Richard: if he’s a good mech, cultivate the guy!

I went to that same school, working on Classics means having a lathe, pedestal drill and milling machine, plus lots of spare bits of materials, is de rigeur. :good:  🙂  Oh, the stories I could tell…wait though, told some here already! :yes:  :yahoo:

Did it come with Windows originally? If so stick another hdd in it and install Windows, that way you can test the gpu. Will ony take ten mins, no need to go through all the updates etc.

What do you do when running Windows and you want to know if you have a hardware or software problem?  You reach for a Linux Live disc.     Why not do the same here?

Boot Mint live from Optical Disc or USB pendrive and edit your docs as normal, then walk away for a while.  If its hardware it will do the same as its been doing with installed Mint and fall over.   If it doesn’t then it wasn’t hardware it was your Mint installation.

I assume as the thread continues that you still have problems.

You may want to try an extended memtest – flaky areas of ram is likely to send things off into la-la land.

I would also get on to your SSD site and check out whatever utilities they have for your pc. It could be that you are missing a firmware update that Mint is ‘assuming’ to be present. I’d also run whatever SMART tests they have, but when I had my carp Kingston 120GB SSD Now 300v (NOT to be recommended under any circumstances) it sailed through all their tests, but was definitely responsible for freezes and crashes under Windows 10. Still worth a check as  poor data in your swap file can also play havoc.

The G210 has a maximum draw of 30 watts, GT610 is 29 watts and the GT710 is 19 watts.

Just shows what a drop in die size does.