"Steven M. Klass" wrote:
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> So I logged in and began working. All of the sudden <no warning> reset.
> Like someone pushed the reset button. Fortunately (or so I think) I have
> reiserfs, which seems to be coping (at least better than me) with this
> irritation. This happend 4 times last night.
>
> So now how do I begin to troubleshoot this? I haven't touched my OS in a
> while (>week) and I use it daily. If this is a hardware problem how do I
> find it? It's not an obvious fault (like a dead harddrive). Then look at
> the time for the reboot? The time certainly seems suspicious - like a cron
> job. But I don't know of a "hard reset" ability with a computer.. Any
> ideas are welcome.
This is a total guess but your description of a hard boot initiated by a
force outside the OS seems to fit with this "feature".
Several years ago the company I was working for got us new machines, I
believe they were Compaq. For some reason I was mucking with the BIOS
settings and noticed these new machines had a setting for automatic
reboot every so many days. You see, these new machines shipped with
Windows NT preinstalled. I guess that Compaq, having worked with
Windows NT before, assumed they would need a regular reboot.
If your system has this "feature" I don't know how it would have gotten
set without you doing it but I thought I would throw it out there.
Dan
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