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On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:52:00PM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote:

> hehe.. talked to early.. just had another crash.. and as usual
> it didn't dump, and it didn't enter ddb.. it just reset!

OK, now that we've established that it's not actually panicking, the
overwhelmingly most likely cause of 'spontaneous reset' crashes is bad
hardware.  e.g. your power supply may be marginal and unable to hold
up to peak loads, so your system will lose power and reboot when you
exceed that load.

Kris

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