From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 10:51:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6689237B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B5943F93 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:51:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h25IpiTb000943; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:51:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E66472D.8010407@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 13:51:25 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tuc Cc: Kris Kennaway , Bsd Neophyte , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please References: <200303051824.h25IOnNj002787@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> In-Reply-To: <200303051824.h25IOnNj002787@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Tuc wrote: >>Your problems certainly sound like failing hardware. The archives are >>littered with examples of people who swore black and blue that failing >>hardware could not possibly be the cause of their mysterious reboots, >>until they found the failing hardware and replaced it :-) Check and >>swap out/replace RAM, power supply, CPU fan, cabling, CPU etc. >> > > Heres the rub... Mine is a Dell 8200 laptop. Not like I can do > much hardware stuff to it... And the old "It don't happen in Winderz". It could be incompatible hardware (i.e. mostly compatible hardware) that works most of the time, but occasionally causes a reboot. Meanwhile, the vender drivers for Windows make it work perfectly there. Also, I've seen flakey hardware that Windows simply didn't exercise enough to cause problems. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message