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Something is seriously wrong with my desktop. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by fenrasulfr@lemmy.world to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The exact same thing kept happening with Pop OS on my Thinkpad P50.

Install and reboot go fine, run the first apt upgrade and it nukes everything, leading to this error.

Wish I could be of help but I abandoned Pop OS and just installed Debian with the proprietary Nvidia drivers.

[–] fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you for your response, I doubt my case can be solved by plain Debian since the same problemen happend under Fedora and Pop OS. The only difference was that I got this error message with Pop OS.

[–] fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I found something suspicious, with a ridiculous amount of logs.

[–] fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I used Gsmartcontrol to do a smart test but both my storage devices got through them with no errors, but I can't get Seatools or Memtest to work on an bootable usb so I am kind of limited in what I can test right now.

[–] rocker@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you update the BIOS yet?

[–] fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for your time, yes I have updated my Z97-DS3H to the F7 uefi/bios. The last one that was ever released.

[–] mark3748@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like failing storage. You may be able to initiate a SMART self-test from the BIOS, or you can use the manufacturers tools. Seatools works on non-seagate drives and has a live USB option.

Do the short test first, if it passes, do the long one to confirm. Short test takes about 15 minutes usually, the long one can take a couple of hours.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I doubt this is storage. It looks more like some platform kernel or firmware bug. Another poster mentioned that it didn't happen on their machine until after an apt update so there's more indication.

While a SMART drive test never hurts I think this one is something else.

[–] mark3748@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

They switched distros and still had issues. That and the general slowdown with high disk usage is a classic sign of failing drives.

Chasing hardware issues by playing with software only wastes time, so ruling out the hardware first is a good idea