On November 24, 2002 03:26 pm, Paul wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this is off topic, but perhaps a hardware guru has a tip for me. > Usually my PC is on and running 24/7. This weekend I switched it off > (friday) because I went to London. This evening (Sunday) I switched it on > again. Somewhere in POST, it switched off and a led started blinking as if > it had gone into sleep-mode or something like that. After a restart, boot > went into Mandrake boot and during load of postfix it switched off again. > This repeated about 12 times, each time in a different place. Also, at > least 4 times, the CMOS CPU speed setting was wrong (900 instead of 1200 > Mhz). Very worrying was when the PC switched off during fsck-ing a > partition. (Of course, partitions get bashed when the system powers down > during boot.) The last boot (clearly) worked, although it took over half an > hour to check all partitions (some EXT2, some EXT3). > > Who has a clue what could trigger this weird hardware behaviour? > Thanks, > Paul Change your cpu fan. It's starting to give up the ghost;-)
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