Hi Ben, I'm running a brand new Zalman CNPS7700 CPU fan along with a brand new Seasonic S12II 430W PSU with a 120mm fan in the machine.
I checked the box when it keeled over while my wife was watching the telly and it was rather hot. It could be the box is not pushed far enough back in the TV cabinet (big mother which holds everything) so the air may not have been able to move around properly regardless of the fans. I've moved it right to the back (I had already cut a hole out of the rear of the cabinet to allow the box to vent properly - wife was not amused). I'm running memtest86+ at the moment and will check what it says tomorrow morning. The machine has generally been running well and so these odd self-reboots are quite odd. >... it would be difficult to determine I guess, until it > completely fails. Sad but true. Thanks for the advice. Regards, Patrick Ben's Linux wrote: > Hi, > > Just a simple thought. > > Try a Live CD for a while and see if it happens. > > If it does not then its not your hard drive and related software but > your motherboard , RAM or power supply. > > Obviously if it still happens change the power supply or RAM and prove it. > > Just a thought as it would be difficult to determine I guess, until it > completely fails. > > Ben > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "elliott-brennan" > <m...@elliott-brennan.id.au> > To: <slug@slug.org.au> > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:02 PM > Subject: [SLUG] Mythbuntu box shutting down at random > > >> Hi all, >> >> I have Mythbuntu running on >> >> a 3Ghz P4 >> 1.5G RAM, >> 500G HDD, >> two PVR-150 video cards >> and a 128mb nVidia card. >> >> On the odd occasion the machine decides to reboot, >> for no particular reason. Tonight, for instance, >> my wife was watching the ABC and the machine just >> borked and rebooted. She wasn't 'doing' anything >> and the machine was doing nothing but showing the >> TV...no additional work. >> >> It's done this irregularly (eg. not every day and >> not at the same time) and I can't work out a pattern. >> >> Last week I had serious problems getting it to >> stay alive for more than 10 minutes. I finally >> replaced the BIOS battery and it was fine. >> >> Can anyone suggest something I should look at? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Regards, >> >> Patrick >> >> -- >> Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 >> >> -- >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
