Willie wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. It seems that > whenever I am in Linux my computer will just turn off. Not shutdown > like I did "shutdown -r now". Just completely off out of the blue at > random times. I have been reading the logs but there is nothing > helpful at all. It is never the same thing on the logs when it does > just shutdown. Sometime I can boot up and it will go off when it says > "Waiting for udev events to finish" or something like that. > > I haven't done any major upgrades in awhile, there is really nothing > different. I installed Windows last night to see if it is a hardware > thing but nope it stays on. I also tried reinstalling Gentoo on a > couple of occasions on another Hard Drive but it just shutdown while I > was getting it done. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. I really don't want to be in Windows > after I spent all that time customizing my XFCE4 desktop. > > -- > > Willie Matthews > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Do you have a setting somewhere that when a fan gets below a certain speed it shuts down thinking the fan has failed? I know on mine I have to turn that feature off, especially in the winter. Sometimes my fans only turn at a couple hundred rpms. The mobo sometimes thinks the fan has failed. It seems to vary by brand as to what it does when this happens but I suspect something in Linux not the BIOS itself. Since winders works, which is odd unto itself lol, then it has to be some setting in Linux. I wouldn't think it would be the kernel since it usually locks up instead of cutting off. Do you have lm-sensors installed? I think it has the ability to do this sort of thing. That would be IF this is causing the problem to begin with. ;-) I'm sure you will get lots of ideas on this one tho. There can be a lot of causes. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
