[NCLUG] machine cuts power

[Chris Funk]

Hi Daniel,

Not an answer to your ?, but I had an Athlon 1.2 that did exactly the same
thing.  I replace everything in the computer (power supply, ram, video,
nic, hd, processor fan) trying to get it fixed.  Even loaded win98 (it
happend about every 10 minutes after I did that)  Finally gave up and got a
new mb.  All has been fine since then.

Good luck
Chris

> Question:
> Every three or four hours my machine cuts its power and reboots (often
> the BIOS has an error at this point and the machine won't boot at all
> 'till I actually hit the power button). It almost feels like a heat
> issue but I've got the machine in a cool room (basement) and the heat
> sensors don't register anything above normal. It also seems to be
> completely independent of anything I'm doing, it's just as likely to
> cut while the machine is idle as during heavy usage.
>
> So then I thought it might be software and I tried to reconfigure my
> kernel. I took out the power management and I thought my problems were
> solved, the machine stayed up for a week solid but now it's doing it
> again and I can't think what I might have changed to make the problem
> come back.
>
> My System:
> AMD 1800+ processor
> MSI KT3 Ultra mainboard
> 512MB DDR RAM
> Debian Linux
>
> I took it to the people I bought it from and they said that one of my
> HD's reported bad in some diagnostics and they thought it was
> responsible... The problem is that I'm now running the machine without
> that drive and it's still doing it.
>
> Can anybody think what it might be and what I can do to solve the
> problem? I've searched the internet for docs talking about this problem
> but it doesn't seem to be common enough that anybody has written and
> poasted anything on it.
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> NCLUG mailing list       NCLUG at nclug.org
>
> To unsubscribe, subscribe, or modify your settings, go to:
> http://www.nclug.org/mailman/listinfo/nclug





***************************************
Chris Funk
Network Administrator
Golden Coast Management
chris at goldencoast.com