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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Tim Pushor <timp@orion.ab.ca>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Tim Pushor wrote:

> I have a machine (P120,64M ram, NCR SCSI, 8505XLI Tape drive, NEC 1x
> cdrom) that is rebooting itself every so often. There are no syslog
> entries, no core dumps, no indication that anything is wrong.
> 
> Does anybody have any advice on how I could go about troubleshooting this
> type of problem?

Start removing unnecessary devices, and have your RAM checked.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major