Re: [PLUG] spontaneous reboots?

[LeRoy Cressy <lcressy@telocity.com>]

kevin mudrick wrote:
> 
> 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?

Simple multi testor available at Radio Shack

> 
> 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?

Mother board bios should have temperture checking

> 
> 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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