Re: [gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss!

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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Willie wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. It seems that
> whenever I am in Linux my computer will just turn off. Not shutdown
> like I did "shutdown -r now". Just completely off out of the blue at
> random times. I have been reading the logs but there is nothing
> helpful at all. It is never the same thing on the logs when it does
> just shutdown. Sometime I can boot up and it will go off when it says
> "Waiting for udev events to finish" or something like that.
>
> I haven't done any major upgrades in awhile, there is really nothing
> different. I installed Windows last night to see if it is a hardware
> thing but nope it stays on. I also tried reinstalling Gentoo on a
> couple of occasions on another Hard Drive but it just shutdown while I
> was getting it done.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated. I really don't want to be in Windows
> after I spent all that time customizing my XFCE4 desktop.
>
> -- 
>
> Willie Matthews
> matthews.willie@gmail.com <mailto:matthews.willie@gmail.com>

Do you have a setting somewhere that when a fan gets below a certain
speed it shuts down thinking the fan has failed?  I know on mine I have
to turn that feature off, especially in the winter.  Sometimes my fans
only turn at a couple hundred rpms.  The mobo sometimes thinks the fan
has failed.  It seems to vary by brand as to what it does when this
happens but I suspect something in Linux not the BIOS itself. 

Since winders works, which is odd unto itself lol, then it has to be
some setting in Linux.  I wouldn't think it would be the kernel since it
usually locks up instead of cutting off.  Do you have lm-sensors
installed?  I think it has the ability to do this sort of thing.  That
would be IF this is causing the problem to begin with.  ;-) 

I'm sure you will get lots of ideas on this one tho.  There can be a lot
of causes.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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