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Sometimes hangs. In verbose mode it hangs on "vm swap subsystem is on" just before you would normally see desktop appear.
It does not always do this but mostly.
Yes when it was first posted. I was rather excited by the prospect of a little solder touch-up but touching up U8900 made no improvement in this case.
I heated the GPU and it booted 20 times in a row 2 days apart with no hang. On this occasion I'll just replace the GPU for a new one.
Great bit of sharing on the sticky but it did not work this time.