Burkhard Wölfel wrote: > Am 31.08.2009 um 06:11 schrieb Gustin Johnson <[email protected]>: > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >>> Sorry, a last shot in the dark: >>> >>> Did you try to add something like >>> >>> acpi=off >>> >>> to the GRUB entry? Just to see what will happen. >>> >> That will likely lead to a lot of xruns and weird behaviour that have >> nothing to do with the problem at hand. >> >> I am more interested in the heat generated by this machine. A CPU >> under >> load generates far more heat than an idle one. I wonder what >> happens if >> he loads Ardour and then does nothing. >> >> The things I would check are the CPU Fan/Heatsink and the power >> supply. >> These two probably account for more than 90% of the "random" reboots >> that I see. >> > > I see a lot of reboots from dying power supplies feeding stacks of > harddisks, faulty RAM and sometimes weak BIOS batteries. > > I would buy a new battery (possibly a cheap CR2032?), check the RAM > using memtest from any linux live cd and try reducing power > consumption by disconnecting CDROM and harddisks, if possible. > > Good luck! > > - Burkhard
I had an empty battery and it didn't cause any trouble, but the need to run ntpdate after each reboot ;). IIRC memtest is part of the OOB installation for 2.1 and available by the GRUB menu. _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
