Of course your hardware needs all fans clean and also the thermal
conduction between CPU and heat sink in proper shape (thermal paste not
dry and still in good condition).
After you recently already have had difficult to explain problems with a
hard disk, did you finally check the motherboard, RAM and CPU to still
perform reliable, as recommended in the thread for your hard disk
problem? You will remember, I recommended to confirm if your hardware
runs stable under a high load for a long time. The test tools
recommended to use are:
RAM: memtest86+ (accessible as an boot option from rescue distros)
CPU: stress-ng (package in the Debian repository)
Motherboard: dd (package coreutils, should already be installed)
Good Luck! Marco.
i've attempted linux installation on problem disk 3 times, both first and second failed, i don't remember what exactly happen, last weekend i removed problem disk to problem pc in this thread and installed fedora, it failed, now i realize failure isn't caused by problem disk.
i have removed heat sink but can't install it. Thank Andrew, but i can't find someone to help me. i don't feel too sorry, these old hardware are cheap. for about 200 yuan i can buy case and everything in case from old pc dealer. it may include 4G memory, 160G disk, intel E6500 cpu and even S&H. one US dollar is about 7 yuan.
with old pc at low price i wonder if it's worthy to learn pc repair skill