System Freeze

1st Official Post

    Long story short I am not a newbie with this situation I had the problem a few years back on openelec but ended up with installing kodibuntu and not had one problem with this freezing issue since.

    These ares some operating systems I have tried with this system and you can see the outcome.

    openelec - 4.2.1 = froze 3 times in 1 hour
    openelec - 4.97.2 = froze once in 2 hours
    enelec - 6 = same problem as above
    windows 10 = froze after 4 hours, but was also too buggy (tried this again at the end of 2016 and still froze)
    windows 8.1 = froze after 76mins
    Linux mint 17.1 = lasted the longest 3hrs 8mins before it froze.


    My system which I only use for Kodi

    AMD Athlon 5350
    Kingston HyperX Fury Blue 4GB (1x4GB)
    Asus AM1I-A
    120GB OCZ SSD
    Strider SST-ST30SF SFX Series

    Though yesterday I did a core update with kodibuntu and it messed everything up it actually took kodi back to 15.2 Isengard and deleted all my addons.

    So I thought I would go back to openelec but seeing as that's still on 16.1 I thought I would give LibreElec a chance.

    I installed it got all my addons back started watching a film and guess what the system froze once again this had not happened in quite some time and is very annoying.

    Personally I think the onboard graphics is the problem because when I have installed a dedicated GPU it's never froze once so really I should purchase a card for this machine which is long overdue.

    Anyone else ever had this problem? and why is it still ongoing.

    Thanks for any help and advise.

    • Official Post

    Having so many system freezes with so many different operating systems, you could also do an extensive test of your memory module(s), just in case.

    If the internal GPU is the problem, and a discrete graphics is a solution, you better get a simple Nvidia card as support is much better than for AMD cards. A passively cooled GT520/610 etc will be fine.

    Another option is to get a Asrock Apollo Lake board, you'll be ready for the next 2-3 years (depending on your personal wishes and use case).

    Thanks for the reply klojum

    It's not a memory issue m8 did all those test a long time ago there is only 1 stick of RAM in there and it was tested quite thoroughly with no errors.

    I've installed milhouse kodi 18 alpha and I've just watched 3 episodes at 1080p with only a small pixelation issue. So like you say and I thought would be best would be to buy a dedicated GPU.

    Edited once, last by lojelo (February 6, 2017 at 12:01 AM).

    Well I purchased myself a GeForce GT 710 SILENT Low Profile 2048MB GPU (long overdue) and it's now been in since the 9-02-17 and I haven't had 1 single system freeze.

    So to me it definitely looks like a AMD  5350 Kabini issue.