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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Subject: Re: periodic freeze and reset
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Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> wrote:
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> Hello list,
> 
> My desktop running 6.2-STABLE is freezing then resetting shortly after.
> This behaviour happens every couple hours, for no apparent reason.
> 
> I checked messages, etc, there's nothing there.
> 
> This is getting annoying... :/
> 
> I'd appreciate any hints/where to look/what to look for.

My first guess would be hardware problems.  Have you run memtest?
Checked for cooling problems?  cpuburn to test for a flaky CPU?

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