From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 18 08:25:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59C616A4DA for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:25:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brucest1@yahoo.com) Received: from web34213.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34213.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.178.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3646543D45 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:25:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brucest1@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 59137 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Jul 2006 08:25:53 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=F1M2n1kSmBrdSbrTuCLAJ5kkvvhzFkkh+kQO0XlBYjPN/mgq73ELE02SA6xfgY/5jkf13NQe5ttYtnuUkY2Yo69AVLxoRe953bAztnjvR+N7bN/9YniouWYVQN4w5SQ1dwhca4qZziye0J3E9LtMZUq/kfVYiAqOUM7cbc0X7Lw= ; Message-ID: <20060718082553.59135.qmail@web34213.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [70.19.155.240] by web34213.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:25:53 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:25:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Stram To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:43:42 +0000 Subject: Sharp UM32W Shutdown X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:25:54 -0000 Add me to the list if you're still keeping it. I'll add the following information: the shutdown started happening to me about 3 years ago. I starting ascribing the problem to heat, as you did. I tried to nurse it along by keeping it cooler, but the problem persisted. It finally progessed to the point where I got a "can't find operating system" on trying to start. I then recovered the system using disks and reinstalled my programs (which are not that many since I only use the laptop on travel.) Over serveral years the problem persisted, reappearing and gradually growing worse after the recovery. Finally I couldn't seem to do anything. Spindisk would not complete a cycle. (Tho the computer seems to have no problem with heat through the long recovery process and Spindisk cycles.) Finally I replaced the hard disk. And things have been fine for six months, til now. Its back. If you know any more, please let me know. Bruce Stram __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com