Pooter running again now; system pkgs updates done, data copied back from Lappy to Pooter, so far all seems ok... but i remain apprehensive til further notice.
Vendor has, i feel, stiffed me a bit. The unit i ordered was accompanied online by a picture unambiguously showing it was a 0.6 amp job. The one that was delivered today is a 0.2 amp job. The original one, now dodgy, is 0.28 amp, so not only did i not get what i wanted, it's not even as powerful as my original. Furthermore, the actual heatsink item has slightly fewer fins, spaced slightly further apart, than my original. Both facts together make me suspect this unit might be intended for an Intel LGA 1150 i3 cpu, whereas mine is Intel LGA 1150 i7. The vendor's site had the facility to select the appropriate motherboard cpu socket type, eg, LGA 1150, LGA 1151, LGA 1155, LGA 1200 etc, but no facility to specify i3, i5, i7, i9 etc. That is, a dodgy web design by accident or design, & i seem to have fallen into the trap.
I thought about ringing the vendor & chucking a tanty, but realised it would not help ofc, & anyway my hands are tied. Best case scenario would have been vendor apologised & offered to replace it with what i actually ordered, but... natch they'd need me to send the received one back to them. I can't do that... i can order stuff online & have it delivered here, but every time i do it [over the last 22 years i've been doing so], i accept i'm gambling, coz if items are defective or wrong, i just have to grin & bear it... coz i can't get myself to a post office to do the necessary stuff for returns. Sigh, being fucked in the head is such fun.
Given the preceding, i decided i had nothing to lose by bunging this new unit into Pooter & giving it a go. If it can't adequately control the cpu temperature & i have to again shutdown & revert to Lappy to plan my next steps, then so be it.
So far, it is holding the temp well [26 C], but i can see it is doing so by running ~1000 rpm faster than the old one would have [~2600 rpm atm, with only browser, Thunderbird, GnuCash, KeePassXC, Goodvibes, text editor open, & thus low load]. Even when i ran a full system update the temp only peaked at ~45 C, which is actually good.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
