On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Mike
On Saturday 27 December 2008 15:56, you wrote:
I have a problem: my PC shuts down once in a while without warning. I do not know where to look for the reason as to why. There appears no crash handler when it has rebooted. Can you please tell me where I might find the problem? What logs should I check?
You might also check the power supply. I just had one that quit. Well, not quit, but would at random intervals just reboot. No messages at all. Once I replaced it the system is much more stable.
I hope not: it's a brand new Zalman 460W powersupply. The system I have should not need more than 350W and the problems do not appear at maximum load, although I didn't test maximum load.
Mine was a pretty new 650w that was flaky. The same system is on a temporary 400w and works just fine. When mine was dying, it was random with no warnings at all. I do remember something a while back about a bad voltage at the USB port or something similar. I took all the ISB stuff off and it seemed better for a while. The best I can come up with is that the PS had a bad voltage regulator somewhere and the system would notice and shutdown.
Mike
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I have found something on the nVidia Nvnews forums: A system that uses mmconf and an nVidia PCI card will crash randomly. I hope this is the problem: I added pci=nommconf to to Grub (just for this boot. If it hasn't crashed by tomorrow morning I will edit the menu file.) Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org