From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LZ7jf-0004Bk-SA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:58:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69504E0423; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f20.google.com (mail-fx0-f20.google.com [209.85.220.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9BB6E0423 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm13 with SMTP id 13so6438609fxm.10 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:57:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=0uTMX/m5rKAyIL4DW+c4q8CHluzsKq6BOI1D40XBV+Y=; b=SwgIcODz/Mq2B2nZ8QVqMyXO1FCJ8HRwImyVWZNNNMe8pcYAxHom9SgAcSk/a4d4CZ 3T9pvsag0zkslDVrGb7EgTDGRYhe+BpUnHuRMB7k+kutHQ4JPokac103unPG2IeSGzSQ b5QuHevJN2CzXmsoJuHtVuCEq3qCC3Fcqsl10= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=Nvs9rxqMeGF07n5U105pNiC/Tpx8zWSfctgmAGvd8TY3KioAfK7j/JANCGN5OE26HR gXP+EzU0AdqjAewdLqNVfHIIcrI1QEEAaoW/VKlKVT3eC//EPKIbJTOlRN47iViUz6Lm wUdMI0yymwpjDj0Sik9AqW4Sl/hFMoHMOzQL8= Received: by 10.223.113.199 with SMTP id b7mr1825321faq.83.1234807062500; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:57:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 25sm5283698bwz.113.2009.02.16.09.57.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:57:42 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: spontaneous reboots.. what to look for Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:57:38 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.27.17r4; KDE/4.2.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <87wsbrs1vv.fsf@newsguy.com> <200902160116.53639.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <87tz6uguh4.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87tz6uguh4.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902161857.39186.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e78a2aff-1ce2-49e5-b159-f34c200dd03c X-Archives-Hash: 39d870804035f2d747184a96d6bd4762 On Montag 16 Februar 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > Do the easy thing first. Clean your case, reseat all cards and > > memory modules and check all caps while doing so. Any of them > > deformed? The 'head' going up? Strange stuff around its feet? > > Congratulation, you need new hardware. > > Sorry to be a numb skull here but what do you mean by `caps' capacitors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor that little black&white or green&white or black&silver or all silver cylindrical thingies that are all over your mainboard. Some of them are on your cards too. And this little guys aren't known for their robustness. In fact they don't like heat - dying very fast when things get hot. (excpet polymer/'solid' cap).