Ron, You're making an assumption that this is a hardware issue. I wouldn't be so quick to start dismantling the box. Rather, I would start by having the bug reporters further clarify the bug.
Did the machine immediately jump to reboot at the bios level (indicating a hardware reset)? Did the machine initiate a logout sequence, shutting down gracefully in the normal fashion and then rebooting (indicating a possible remote shutdown or rogue process)? I have encountered this on 2 occasions druing very early 9.0beta testing. Both times the machine performed a logout/shutdown (fsck did NOT run on reboot). I immediately rechecked the status of all servers and processes (especially remote login) and ran 'chkrootkit'. I rechecked the setting of remote shutdown in Control Center. Nothing showed up. After moving through subsequent beta versions and the 3 release candidates, the problem never resurfaced. Bob On Thursday 03 October 2002 02:27 am, Ron Stodden wrote: > Matthew C. Tedder wrote: > > I recently read a negative review of Linux Mandrake from a Red Hat user > > and presumed that this hasn't only happened to me. (Can't seem to find > > the article again but he said it locked up and shut down shortly after > > typing starting slowing down on the console). > > > > It happened to me 3 times in the last few days but at completely random > > times--I don't know why. The machine just shut itself down. > > > > Maybe I should make a bug report: I've had this machine for about one > > year now. The motherboard is a Promise 7DXR (something like that...) > > with RAID (although Mandrake just makes both drives available > > separately.) > > Have you tried the standard debug procedure for this type of problem? > That is to power down, remove all the cards except your video card, > power up. If the problem has gone, replace the cards one by one (power > down, plug in, power up) until you locate which card is faulty. > > I have had intermittent hangs recently on one of my machines and this > technique isolated the problem to my Sound Blaster Live! card. Removed > it and everything has stayed good.
