Today, i turned on my Mint pc and it wouldn’t let me type in a passpowrd. Even the mouse was not reacting.

So i rebooted, got a massive text wall that mentioned something about not syncing

When i rebooted again, it wouldn’t start up only a few rotations with the fans and then it restarts and repeats this loop

I assume that this is a hardware issue but what should i be looking into and how do i make the recovery as smooth as possible?

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Would the error happen to be “Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!”?

    I’d assume that you’ve either had your filesystem corrupt itself or had the storage device/controller fail. But, since you’re making it that far, and I’m assuming this is a SSD, it’s probably more likely it’s corruption.

    I’d start by booting to a USB stick and seeing if you can fsck the filesystem(s) on your drive.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      8 months ago

      So… it won’t even boot at all now. Only rotates the fans a few times and shuts down. Could it be a powerfully issue

        • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
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          8 months ago

          Ok thanks. The PSU is the newest part in this PC. Was replaced half a year ago for doing the exact same thing. Sounds like there may be something breaking the PSU somehow

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    fans start rotating for a few seconds and then it shuts down.

    That could mean the CPU is getting too warm. Does the CPU cooler still work okay ?

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      I’ve passed it over to my local pc store and asked them to troubleshoot the hardware. I’m pretty sure that it is the psu as it was replaced half a year ago for doing more or less the same thing. Maybe something is breaking my psu