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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jose wrote:
> John Andersen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Kai Ponte wrote:
> >  
> > > I have noticed that my laptop as of late has been rebooting on a 
> > > regular
> > > basis, without my intervention. I noticed it just now in fact. I 
> > > hadn't had
> > > it on all day, came home from work, booted it, went to get a drink came
> > > back and the system was just powering down. It came up of course, 
> > > with all
> > > the journal transactions replayed, but this is getting annoying.
> > >
> > > I thought maybe it was firefox or kmail or flash or netbeans or some 
> > > other
> > > app.  However, nothing consistent is showing.
> > >
> > > I ran memtest86+ (version 1.7 downloaded a boot iso) for a few hours
> > > yesterday but didn't notice anything.
> > >     
> >
> > Is it a sony?
> >
> >
> >
> >   
> Hi
>
> That happnded to me with a Acer TV4400, it was the memory, I added a 
> second module and after a while got fried somehow, and showed the same 
> behaviour than yours, are you able to take out the module or is it the 
> only one installed on it?, you may like to verify that
One thing to bear in mind about this sort of problem is that while it's 
often caused by memory, there may be other causes as well.  So , it's 
always advisable to run memtest, bearing in mind other hardware problems 
can also cause memory errors.

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