From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 13:25:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saratoga.linuxpowered.net (saratoga.linuxpowered.net [63.121.110.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D93537B429 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:25:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by saratoga.linuxpowered.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) id g32LPOLU024747 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:25:24 -0800 Received: from saratoga.linuxpowered.net (www-data@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saratoga.linuxpowered.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with SMTP id g32LPMkP024737 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:25:22 -0800 Received: from gate-wa.graphon.com ([63.121.110.34]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user aphro) by webmail.linuxpowered.net with HTTP; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:25:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <63578.63.121.110.34.1017782722.squirrel@webmail.linuxpowered.net> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:25:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: sudden reboots From: "nate" To: In-Reply-To: <3CAA14D5.9060308@ndsu.nodak.edu> References: <3CAA14D5.9060308@ndsu.nodak.edu> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.4) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE, and I've been having problems with my > computer, a Dell OptiPlex GX300, rebooting suddenly and without warning. > No error messages are ever printed. Would FreeBSD ever reboot this way > on it's own, or would it always print some kind of error message? I > think it's a power supply problem, but I would like to make sure that it > couldn't be FreeBSD's fault when I call to get a replacement. if you think the power supply is cutting out it should affect other OSs as well. you could try leaving it in the BIOS, and see if it reboots, get a linux boot disk and see if it reboots(no need to install, just run off the CD/floppy). download QNX(i think its still available) and run the demo floppy see if it reboots, etc .. i would hope this system is on a UPS ? nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message