Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:00:52 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>, Steve Warwick <ukla@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?! Message-ID: <200303281200.52545.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <3E839745.8000602@gmx.de> References: <BAA49A98.4698%ukla@attbi.com> <20030327233929.GA67949@lethargic.dyndns.org> <3E839745.8000602@gmx.de>
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:58, Siegbert Baude wrote: > >If there was not a clean shutdown, I would start looking for faulty > >hardware, assuming the power was not interrupted. Any machine that > >spontaniously reboots on its' own usually has a bad power supply, but = it > >could be very well be the motherboard, or even something else. Furthe= r, > >as many other people have said, just because the hardware is new does = not > >necessarily mean it is problem-free. > > Look especially for the condensators on the motherboard. There is a > wide-spread problem with a Taiwanese company having produced bad > electrolyte. The resulting condensators are found in motherboards of > nearly all manufacturers and (as I can say out of my own experience) > give exactly the behaviour, you described. > > Ciao > Siegbert I take it that by 'condensators' you mean eletrolytic capacitors? Malcolm Kay
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