From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:08:56 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ik8nn7$qbp$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4D67CBC0.4000604@gmail.com
On 2011-02-25, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I think my machine is possessed or something. I'm getting random
> reboots here. When it does this, it is like hitting the reset button.
> It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this. I noticed the first
> time the other day and this was before adding the extra memory. I
> seemed to be stable at 4Gbs but I seem to be rebooting at random. I ran
> memtest yesterday, it checked fine.
By "memtest" I assume mean memtest86?
In my experience, you should let it run multiple passes (I'd recommend
at least 4 or 4 -- I would imagine it'll take a couple days). I've
seen situations where it was OK on the initial pass, and then failed
later.
The other likely suspect is probably the power supply.
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I have a TINY BOWL in
at my HEAD
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-25 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-25 15:33 [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start? Dale
2011-02-25 16:56 ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-02-25 23:06 ` Dale
2011-02-26 15:33 ` Yohan Pereira
2011-02-26 15:46 ` Dale
2011-02-27 17:52 ` Jason Weisberger
2011-02-27 20:12 ` Dale
2011-02-27 23:32 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-02-28 1:38 ` Dale
2011-02-28 7:03 ` Dale
2011-03-01 23:25 ` Jason Weisberger
2011-03-02 0:53 ` Dale
2011-03-02 14:15 ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-25 17:08 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2011-02-25 23:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2011-02-26 22:20 ` walt
2011-02-26 22:40 ` Mark Knecht
2011-02-26 22:52 ` Dale
2011-02-25 17:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-02-25 18:03 ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-26 0:18 ` Dale
[not found] ` <4d67fbde.83a0df0a.5870.3917@mx.google.com>
2011-02-26 0:24 ` Dale
2011-02-26 9:27 ` Mick
2011-02-26 14:28 ` Dale
2011-02-27 17:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-02-27 19:43 ` Mick
2011-02-27 20:23 ` Dale
2011-02-27 23:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-03-01 23:14 ` Mick
2011-03-01 23:51 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-03-02 15:51 ` Mick
2011-03-02 16:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-02 16:37 ` Mick
2011-03-02 16:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-02 16:52 ` Alex Schuster
2011-03-02 23:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-02-26 16:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-02-27 10:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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