spontaneous reboots/ what causes these in general?

[Rob Lytle]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:19:44 +0000
Martin Tournoy <carpetsmoker at gmail.com> wrote:

> You might want to check if your power cables are all firmly and
> properly connected, both those on the outside and inside.
> 
> You can also try running from a live-cd, or another harddisk with
> another installation and see if the problem still occurs, if it does,
> you know it's a hardware problem and not software...
> 
> Replace the power supply, maybe it's broken..
> 
> 
> My experience is that checking for hardware problems before software
> problems is the fastest way to fix something like this (example: a few
> weeks back I spent a hour getting my floppy drive to work only to
> discover the power cable wasn't connected, DUH!)
> 
> On 05/12/05, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:04:05AM -0800, Rob wrote:
> >
> > > The idea of running Mozilla or Firefox from a terminal was a very good one.  I am getting an error message:  (Gecko:40685) Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
> > >
> > > I will run that by one of the mozilla.or  lists.
> >
> > That's harmless.
> >
> > > But I am very curious what causes FreeBSD to reboot immediately?
> >
> > Hardware problems, generally.  Search the archives for extensive
> > discussion.
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
> >
Hi Martin,

This machine is an HP zd8000 laptop, so I am kind of stuck with the
hardware.   I went to www.zd7000forums.com and found that people are
even having lots of problems on Windows with this laptop.  I don't
think it has anything to do with FreeBSD.  I upgraded the BIOS to the
latest so I will see if that stops it.  Actually, my problems are not
big when compared to other people.

Sincerely,

Rob Lytle

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