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Subject: Re: unclean reboot during portupgrade
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how would I check that?
and yes, cd works fine...


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:37:22 -0600, Jim King <jim@jimking.net> wrote:
> I made a Memtest86 bootable CD.  Does your CD drive work?
> 
> Check your power supply.  I had similar problems, and it turned out the
> extra power used during heavy disk I/O AND heavy CPU usage caused the
> power supply to flake out.  It caused all sorts of strange symptoms,
> which all went away when the new power supply was installed.
> 
> Ben Haysom wrote:
> 
> >hi
> >
> >I have a problem with 5.3 FreeBSD on my Duron 700 mhz 512 Mb ram 200 gig HD.
> >
> >It currently reboots itself (without shutting down) before finishing a
> >portupgrade -a.
> >
> >I was advised to test the memory and CPU (which I did using memtest
> >and cpuburn - couldn't use memtest86 coz my floppy drive is busted)
> >and they both seem fine. memtest did seem to struggle at the start.
> >
> >Next I've gone for fsck - seemed fine once it had fixed the errors
> >(various switches -f and -y) but I'm not 100% sure of this.
> >
> >Any advice?
> >
> >Ben.
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