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Re:I don’t know how to count that low by djokkataja on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @03:42AM (#28997490)
> It just takes a long time to run a memory test on 32 GB of RAM

Maybe run memtest while you sleep? :)

> Or maybe it’s a thermal issue.

I'm no expert on thermal issues by any means, but I did have a laptop that overheated frequently in the past. It was very easy to identify that it was a heat problem, because the fans would start screaming and then it would reliably overheat and power itself off anytime I tried to do anything CPU-intensive with it. Sticking it in a freezer "solved" the problem.

Anyway, given that your freezes are completely random, it doesn't sound like a thermal issue?

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Re:I don’t know how to count that low by codetrotter on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:34AM (#28997855)
> Maybe run memtest while you sleep? :)

Yup, did that tonight. The test is finished now and it found zero errors. The test took 7 hours and 56 minutes to run. I used a bootable USB stick with MemTest86 v9.3 Free to test it.

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