I am pretty sure I pissed of some eldritch deity because I have been chasing this laggy feeling I had with my pc for 2 months.
But in the past few days my desktop was getting very slow during installationand general use. At the same time my HDD activity indicator would be on all the time. Turning off the pc would shut it down and a few seconds later restart.
So I switched out Fedora for Pop OS and everything went fine for half a day and the problemen came back again.
When turning off the pc, right now, I got what you see in the picture.
So I would like to ask do I need to hire an exorcist or is hardware borked in someway?
Any help would be greatly appreciatie, so I would like to thank anyone even willing to look at my post.
EDIT: Well for anyone still interested, apparently it was something in the 6.5 series kernals that made my pc behave weird because with 6.6 kernal all of the problems vanished. I want to thank everyone again for all the suggestion and help diagnosing my problem.
Looks like failing storage. You may be able to initiate a SMART self-test from the BIOS, or you can use the manufacturers tools. Seatools works on non-seagate drives and has a live USB option.
Do the short test first, if it passes, do the long one to confirm. Short test takes about 15 minutes usually, the long one can take a couple of hours.
I doubt this is storage. It looks more like some platform kernel or firmware bug. Another poster mentioned that it didn’t happen on their machine until after an apt update so there’s more indication.
While a SMART drive test never hurts I think this one is something else.
Thank you so much for your fast response. I can’t find any bios option for testing so I will have to do it with external software. Should I only test the boot drive or also the storage drive?
I would probably test both, just to be sure, but I wouldn’t bother with the long test on anything but the system drive unless you suspect a problem with it. The quick test is usually sufficient at catching most issues.
Since you’re looking at data corruption that persists between installs, your boot drive and memory are the most likely culprits. If the test says the drive is fine, then memory tests are next.
I do not know if this aides with diagnosis while I try to get the bootable usb to work (my pc doesn’t recognise the program when I boot from the usb). But in bios my ram is detected 32gb but in the os it is detected as 31.19gb.