computer reboots on its own
Donald Mac McCarthy
mac at oscontext.com
Fri Oct 4 20:12:48 MST 2019
I have had that happen before when a BIOS only partially supports boot
from USB. Have you booted from USB on that system before?
Do you have a CD you could burn the iso to and try. That sounds so...
old fashioned, but I have a couple of 10 yr old dell workstations that
don't properly USB boot that I used before I discovered I could replace
them with a couple of RasPis.
Mac
Michael wrote on 10/3/19 3:47 PM:
> Yepers.... just notes.
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:03 PM Stephen Partington
> <cryptworks at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> No, just notes. at least from the looks of them.
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 8:05 AM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com
> <mailto:bob.elzer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Are those your passwords on the sticky notes?
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 4:53 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> what a mess my computer desk is
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 7:50 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 20191002_193516_01.jpg
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:36 PM
> <kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <mailto:kitepilot at kitepilot.com>> wrote:
>
> > what do you advise I do...
> Call Geek Squad? 8)
>
> Can you send me a picture of the screen you get?
> Memetest is (or was) prtty straight forward.
> Even *I* could use it! ;-)
> ET
>
>
> Michael writes:
>
> > Okay e t I bought a USB drive and ran the
> command 2 put the memtest on it
> > but when I boot it gets to verifying DMI pool
> and just sits . I've had a
> > going for about 15 minutes and nothing's
> happened what do you advise I do
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019, 6:38 AM
> <kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <mailto:kitepilot at kitepilot.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> You only need 500MG.
> >> A USB HD that size will be cheaper than the can
> of air.
> >> Buy one too!
> >> ET
> >>
> >>
> >> Michael writes:
> >>
> >> > all the fans are working. I'll try the
> memtest.... I don't have a spare
> >> usb
> >> > drive large enough.....
> >> > $ sudo dd if=memtest86-usb.img of=/dev/sdc
> >> > dd: writing to '/dev/sdc': No space left on
> device
> >> > 128001+0 records in
> >> > 128000+0 records out
> >> > 65536000 bytes (66 MB, 62 MiB) copied,
> 21.5638 s, 3.0 MB/s
> >> > bmike1 at MikesBeast:/tmp$
> >> > I'll take care of it tomorrow
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:48 PM
> <kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <mailto:kitepilot at kitepilot.com>> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I agree that heat is a big suspect, but it
> could also be some creative
> >> >> video
> >> >> driver or a bad memory.
> >> >> Give memtest a try:
> >> >>
> https://www.memtest86.com/downloads/memtest86-usb.zip
> >> >> ET
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Matthew Crews writes:
> >> >>
> >> >> > On 9/28/19 4:31 PM, Michael wrote:
> >> >> >> Thank you so much for the help I really
> truly appreciate it.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > No problem, its what we are here for.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> Does it reboot while you are using
> it? Are you using very
> >> intensive
> >> >> >> applications on it, or very
> not-intensive applications?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> So far it has only only reboot. after I
> load Chrome. And it doesn't
> >> >> >> happen all the time usually it will load
> the Chrome and it will
> >> reboot
> >> >> >> then open it again and then it will be fine.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Chrome is notoriously resource intensive.
> Maybe give Chromium or
> >> Firefox
> >> >> > a try.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > But based on that answer I'm leaning
> towards a fan failure first. As
> >> you
> >> >> > said you are currently in Miami, so when
> you get back definitely check
> >> >> that.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Could also be simple dust accumulation,
> something a can of air can
> >> fix.
> >> >> > That is something that is obvious to see
> when you look.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > There are a few other possible things to
> check, but lets rule out the
> >> >> > simple stuff first before we dive deeper.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > -Matt
> >> >> >
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