From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 21:14:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D34410656AC for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:14:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryan.coleman@cwis.biz) Received: from qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622C68FC0C for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:14:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.60]) by qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yKMy1e0061HpZEsA2MEcfH; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:14:36 +0000 Received: from [10.0.1.9] ([70.89.198.73]) by omta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id yMEV1e00H1bWFVA8aMEXBu; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:14:34 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Ryan Coleman In-Reply-To: <20100824210236.GA12409@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:14:26 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <82C8A15A-AE23-4D36-8BE6-B85035616FAC@cwis.biz> References: <20100824210236.GA12409@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> To: Frank Shute X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Cc: Chris Maness , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:14:37 -0000 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"