RE: [PLUG] spontaneous reboots?

[kevin mudrick <kevin@furhurts.com>]

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions, everyone.  I'm not sure if
it's a memory problem; other than the spontaneous reboot/power failure, I
don't get any weird beeps or anything hanging on post.  Now that I recall,
this happened to me twice over the summer, at a different location, but I
just shrugged it off.

Two things, though, that people might be able to help me out with:

1) How do I test the power supply?  Leroy suggested checking the output
voltage, but what kind of equipment do I need to do that?

2) Checking for overheating.. My case doesn't seem to get very hot, though
I'd like to check the CPU temperature anyway.. is lm_sensors the way to
go?  what kind of temperature range should I expect for a duron 800?

Oooh.. another thing that I've always wondered about... could running
something like win4lin that needs a win4lin-patched kernel to work, cause
funky system instability like this?

Thanks,
Kevin


> I second the thought that memory may be the problem.  I had the same thing
> happen to me on an ASUS mobo with a Athlon T-Bird CPU.  One night it just
> rebooted spontaneously, no warning.  It booted up and then did it again.
> After the second time it would not reboot but hung on POST. The key
> indicator were the mobo/bios error beeps...a continuous single beep
> indicating a memory problem.  After removing and switch my two memory sticks
> I determined that one had gone bad.  It would boot with that stick in the
> second slot and the good one in the first slot, but the POST memory test
> indicated that that stick was bad (had to turn off the Quick Boot option in
> BIOS in order to run the extensive memory testing on bootup).  I returned
> the bad memory for replacement and all has been fine since.



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