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I'd like to share my current status: I was able to stop the crashes by replacing the Emtec SSD with another one. I find it strange, since it doesn't have any obvious errors and I'm still using it. But MX Linux doesn't seem to like it. Now it seems to be running stable.

Also, use MX Cleanup to ...

Hello, installing the liquorix kernel didn't help either, it was unchanged afterwards.
However, I did install the AHS package with the 6.12.8-1-liquorix - amd64 kernel. After that, it ran stable for a while until the update packages reset something and it crashed again straight after.
In the package ...

I have now connected the hard drive directly and performed a new installation, implemented all the settings mentioned, but it still crashes.
I have observed the crashing behavior again closely: If I do nothing on the Internet, especially if I don't open Firefox, it runs stable. It became unstable ...

As far as the energy settings are concerned, I did everything as CharlesV said and then deactivated energy saving completely. Then I noticed that the screen still turned off after 10 minutes. So there must be another setting besides the xscreensaver and power manager settings that I don't know about ...

@m_pav
The power supply is new, the graphics card is much newer than the board. The board is admittedly older, but as I wrote above, it has been running absolutely stable under Windows (on other hard drives that are not currently active) for months. I don't understand the other configuration you ...

Uninstalling and installing the xscreensaver worked, but I wasn't sure about the settings. "time out" didn't mean anything to me and I couldn't find any screensaver settings to turn it off completely. The problem still persists.
I could imagine that it would be helpful to completely turn off the ...

#4 Unread post by Adrian » Thu Feb 27, 2025 7:22 pm
Can you run the Live for an hour or so to rule out software issue, if it still crashes it means it's a hardware issue, keep an eye on the temperature of the system.
Live system 90 minutes without problems, so the cause is probably not a hardware ...

Firefox is installed and I had already deactivated hardware acceleration. The problem also exists when no browser is open.

Hello,
I'm new to Linux, I managed to install MX 23.5 x64 well, but unfortunately I have the problem that MX Linux crashes a while after starting (between 5 and 20 minutes) and not even resetting the computer helps, only turning it off and on again, then rebooting. I can't see a reason for the ...