Wifi keeps dropping out in evening [Solved]

[SpidermansLegs]

Ah right thank you. Got it.

Would there be any benefit in updating his RAM too? He did buy a DDR3 one to add but the computer didn't seem to pick it up.

The one he added was Integral RAM 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Desktop PC Memory

[linexer2016]

Adding compatible memory never goes astray in terms of being useful. Of course, it does depend on your computing needs - no point in having a surfeit of RAM if you do little more than some basic browsing and word processing in which case 8Gb of RAM should be quite adequate. Check out crucial.com for they along with similar providers of RAM modules have a RAM compatibility checker which helps ensure you buy the RAM that is suited to your PC.

[SpidermansLegs]

I checked crucial.com but it wants to know the manufacturer of the computer.

It was custom built and with a lot of digging I found the invoice from 2017

This is what it says:

CAS2569 1 CiT Phaser Midi Tower Black Case
MBD1328 1 Gigabyte F2A78M-HD2 AMD Socket FM2+ Motherboard
CAB8001 1 Mains Power Cable
CDR0150 1 CCL Choice DVD Writer Optical Drive
CPU0288 1 AMD A6 7400K 3.5GHz Dual Core (Socket FM2+) CPU
RAM1635 1 CCL Choice 4GB (1x 4GB) 1600MHz DDR3 RAM
HDD2762 1 Seagate BarraCuda 2TB SATA III 3.5" Hard Drive
NET2445 1 Edimax EW-7612PIn V2 OEM 300Mbps PCI Express WiFi

[SpidermansLegs]

Anyway, I understand if you don't want to help with this as I feel I am asking an awful lot and you've already helped with the wifi issue which I'm really grateful for :)

[linexer2016]

No worries Spider. Looking at your custom built specs. I'd suggest you enter MBD1328 Gigabyte F2A78M-HD2 AMD Socket FM2+ (the motherboard) for it's the motherboard that the RAM fits onto and inputting that should IMO, yield the compatible memory you may be after. You could as well search for RAM1635 part number. Good luck.

[j2mcgreg]

@SpidermansLegs

from here:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA ... v-30/sp#sp

Theses are the supported memory types for the desktop's motherboard:

Support for DDR3 2400(OC)/2133/1866/1600/1333 MHz memory modules

Edited to add that since you already have DDR3 1600 installed, any future ram should also be that speed.

[SpidermansLegs]

Thank you all. You have been so helpful :-)

We have bought the wifi adapter suggested from amazon. We'll be looking into the RAM too based on your suggestions :-)

[SpidermansLegs]

It's funny that the new one we added was ddr3 1600 but the machine did not recognise it.

@SpidermansLegs

from here:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA ... v-30/sp#sp

Theses are the supported memory types for the desktop's motherboard:

Support for DDR3 2400(OC)/2133/1866/1600/1333 MHz memory modules

Edited to add that since you already have DDR3 1600 installed, any future ram should also be that speed.

[Charlie Brown]

In the meantime:

/ ... used: ... (90.7%) ... dev: /dev/sda1

Make some cleaning as soon as possible. Otherwise someday it'll make a surprise and won't let him even login (then you won't know what happened suddenly and ask :) )

"Disk Usage Analyzer" from menu will be helpful, you can move some big sized files to somewhere else. Also "MX Cleaner" from menu may be helpful...


Just btw. you can use "zram" (like I do): https://mxlinux.org/wiki/other/zram/

This will do it at one go on MX-19:

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sudo cp /usr/local/bin/zram /etc/init.d ; sudo update-rc.d zram defaults

Reboot

[siamhie]

It's funny that the new one we added was ddr3 1600 but the machine did not recognise it.

@SpidermansLegs

from here:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA ... v-30/sp#sp

Theses are the supported memory types for the desktop's motherboard:

Support for DDR3 2400(OC)/2133/1866/1600/1333 MHz memory modules

Edited to add that since you already have DDR3 1600 installed, any future ram should also be that speed.

Here's the supported list of RAM for that motherboard. (click on download and scroll to the 1600 section)
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA ... upport-doc