Oddball occasional freeze on Dell Inspiron

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 21:55, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> For the Computer Wombling Project I volunteer for, I have never seen this on Dells or anything else. I would suggest running memtest86+ to exhaustively test the memory of the affected computers.

I endorse this.

> Someone I know fixed a "did not boot" problem by removing and re-inserting the computer memory for a different make of laptop. Is that an option for you?

It's also useful sometimes, yes. The contacts on DIMMs can be
carefully cleaned using a pencil eraser, if they do not look nice and
shiny.

I also recommend checking that the system firmware is up to date.

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