Hello everyone. I've got this Aspire which is working fine for moderate/light development work. I'm a developer for KDE, so the preinstalled Win10 partition went away almost immediately. I needed all of the 256GB drive I could get my hands on. Not too much later, I doubled the memory to 16GB (carefully matching the memory speed, etc.) and installing a standard 2.5 SSD.
However, even before my upgrades, this machine has had a problem when trying to log out. It'll hang with maybe one window left on the screen. The touchpad is disabled already, as is the keyboard. The only thing I can do is power cycle it.
This has happened with every Linux distro and/or desktop environment I've tried. Single boot, dual boot, even triple for a short while (don't ask).
The list includes:
- KDE Plasma, since at least 5.8
- GNOME 3
- openSUSE Tumbleweed
- Kubuntu
- KDE neon
- Manjaro (w/KDE and Deepin)
- i3
- Awesome
This weekend, I upgraded the secondary SSD again to a full 1TB. Since I had the space, I reinstalled a Win10 partition (while the rest of the drive was still bare) just so I could run Acer's BIOS upgrade program - I bumped it up to the newest version and set about reinstalling all my usual/unusual stuff.
The problem continues.
I tried posting this on StackOverflow/SuperUser and the only reponse I got is "sounds like a software problem". Look at the list of OS's and DM's above... all different, yet it still hangs.
Does anyone have a guess as to what might be wrong? I'm not a serious hardware guru, so I don't really know where to look. I know I matched that memory very carefully because I know the speed and timing can really jack up your system. Could there be a fault in the RAM? Do I need to start Memtest and go to bed while it runs?
Any ideas?
Thanks!
