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From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:29:27AM -0700, Chris Maness wrote:
>
> I have commented out the lines that load kernel modules for
> virtualbox, and made sure they were gone with kldstat. =A0However I am
> still getting VERY infrequent spontaneous reboots. =A0So it is not the
> modules. =A0I am thinking hardware. =A0It has a temperature alarm that
> sounds when it is hot, but since I have cleaned it out I have not had
> any issues with heat. =A0I am thinking bad processor/ram. =A0It is
> behaving the same way before/after the upgraded to the latest release.
> =A0What do you guys think?
>=20
> Regards,
> Chris Maness

Sounds to me like power supply. Is the machine on a UPS? Have you
checked out the power leads are properly seated? Have these reboots
started to happen after you cleaned it out?


Regards,

--=20

 Frank

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