Hi Szemir, Thanks for your reply. Perhaps "shutdown" is not the right word. What happens is not "graceful"! The screen goes black and the PC just dies!
Robin On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:39 AM, bogi <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you may have a full / <<root partition or a full /home partition. I > don't think a faulty psu would result in a graceful shutdown. A psu taking > the power-good signal away might result in a graceful shutdown, but not in > case power is really not good :-) > Also a shorted out / stuck reset button can result in a graceful shutdown. > Knowing your system i would go for the full partition option first. > Cheers > Szemir > > On Wednesday 08 July 2009 09:00:23 Richard Carter wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > This morning my desk top PC (amd64, Debian 5.0) began spontaneously > > shutting down. This happens at various times: part way through booting, > > while in kde, during back up. I suspect the power supply has failed. > Does > > this sound right? > > > > Robin Carter > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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