Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:14:26 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> To: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> Cc: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules) Message-ID: <82C8A15A-AE23-4D36-8BE6-B85035616FAC@cwis.biz> In-Reply-To: <20100824210236.GA12409@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <AANLkTim8GW5eWkyROadC0mZuw3sGex0rD2YeTjXfxNBd@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTim9o7h0vy5iATaavoN=Cru4BDEdCG=VdF4vt84m@mail.gmail.com> <20100824210236.GA12409@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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I was thinking that, maybe, it's the PSU itself. Does the fan work? Do = you have the ability to get temperatures inside your computer? Get those = to poll every minute or so and write to a flat file? -- Ryan On Aug 24, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:29:27AM -0700, Chris Maness wrote: >>=20 >> I have commented out the lines that load kernel modules for >> virtualbox, and made sure they were gone with kldstat. However I am >> still getting VERY infrequent spontaneous reboots. So it is not the >> modules. I am thinking hardware. It 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. I am thinking bad processor/ram. It is >> behaving the same way before/after the upgraded to the latest = release. >> What do you guys think? >>=20 >> Regards, >> Chris Maness >=20 > 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? >=20 >=20 > Regards, >=20 > --=20 >=20 > Frank >=20 > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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