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I had a QNAP Celeron NAS where I installed Ubuntu because it was out of support.

The trouble was that it threw a kernel panic at certain times of the day. I troubleshooted it to no end - reinstalled Linux, did an EFI update. I chalked it up to something I did because I was running 16 GB of RAM when QNAP said max RAM was 8 GB.

Fast forward to this year, and it fails to load up completely.

It turned out that it was a silicon degradation bug that was a problem with J1900 devices.

I wasted so much time over the years trying to troubleshoot something that I could not fix…






There is a hardware workaround for those. Involves a little bit of soldering.

I did and it didn’t bring it back. It was its time…

The best part of stuff like this is all of the other stuff you fixed that you didn't know were broken or wrong, and all the things you learned along the way



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