On Jan 5, 2008 9:09 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@ij.net> wrote:
On 2008/01/05 20:50 (GMT+0530) Shibu Basheer apparently typed:
I have a new installation of Open Suse. I find it to randomly shuts down, just like someone accidently presses the power button, or issue the shutodown command. There are no prompts, messages or anything, just starts shutting down closing everything that I've been doing.
Any ideas on how to isolate this problem? BTW, this has happened on another computer, but AMD CPUs, only common component was the memory, and a TV card.
One possibility is an erroneous indication of CPU overheat. If you know how and your BIOS provides the means to do so, you can underclock your system by about 25% to see if the problem stops. If it does, you'll have to troubleshoot the cause of the erroneous indication. IIRC, it is caused by two daemons both trying to monitor CPU temp at the same time.
Another possibility is TV card related. TV cards seem to demand a lot of power, maybe more than your power supply can reliably provide. You can temporarily remove the card to see if this is your problem.
HI Felix, Thanks for you suggestions. I've ruled both the problem, because the system is running quite stable in safe mode, and I have been running a long tv scan with tvtime. So it looks like it is some kernel parameter, or something that is enabled during normal bootup? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org