DaveW
So, what suggestions would you have for replacing a Dell 620?
I’m actually very happy with this unit… except, lately, it occasionally freezes, at seemingly random times (during boot-up, on opening email program, on accessing email, while browsing internet, while reading something with no key entry…), with various display anomalies (sometimes a small square with colored stripes appears at a random location, sometimes there are vertical or horizontal bars, sometimes there is a mad scramble on the screen, sometimes the cursor just freezes and Conky shows no time movement). These things can happen at any time. But sometimes, the unit runs all day, flawlessly. Most of the above has been observed with AntiX 17 (32 bit). But I have already experienced a couple of similar freezes with a recent experimental install of AntiX 21 (32 bit). Both use 4.9.0-xxx kernel. I don’t run anything that approaches RAM limits.
Anyway, I’m assuming there is something flaky in the D620, since these symptoms don’t appear on my Asus eeepc or Asus K54.