On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:58, Siegbert Baude wrote: > >If there was not a clean shutdown, I would start looking for faulty > >hardware, assuming the power was not interrupted. Any machine that > >spontaniously reboots on its' own usually has a bad power supply, but it > >could be very well be the motherboard, or even something else. Further, > >as many other people have said, just because the hardware is new does not > >necessarily mean it is problem-free. > > Look especially for the condensators on the motherboard. There is a > wide-spread problem with a Taiwanese company having produced bad > electrolyte. The resulting condensators are found in motherboards of > nearly all manufacturers and (as I can say out of my own experience) > give exactly the behaviour, you described. > > Ciao > Siegbert
I take it that by 'condensators' you mean eletrolytic capacitors? Malcolm Kay _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
