[CVALE] Hardware vs. Software problem

[Wayne Vieira]

Thanks.  This seems reasonable.  I had not thought if that.  Letting the
system cool down for a long time didn't seem to matter much, if at all.
This would seem to be a possible indicator that heat wasn't an issue.   I
usually think of power supplies as working/not-working,   But maybe that's
not the case.  Now, to find a spare PS.

 

Thanks,

Wayne

 

 

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From: cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com
[mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of C. Skaggs
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 12:58 PM
To: cvale at cvale.org
Subject: Re: [CVALE] Hardware vs. Software problem

 

Wayne, the first thing that popped into my brain was power supply.
sounds like yours may be wimping out.
 at system startup, your system is pulling more power than just about any
other time.
 everything in the system is powering up and it's hard on a power supply.  
do you have a spare you can pop in to see?

On 4/20/06, Wayne Vieira <wavieira at pacbell.net> wrote:


On my dual boot system (winXP/SuSE10.0) I upgraded to SuSE10.1beta9.
Important things are backed up.  (I understand what 'beta' means), but
re-installing from scratch is always not fun.

I am not sure if this is a grub problem, or the system is just getting old. 
About the time of the upgrade, a symptom appeared that seems to suggest
overheating:  system freezes up on grub in different places.  Sometimes it's
early on (before the splash-screen appears), sometimes halfway through.  1 
out of 10 times I successfully get through to the menu and select the OS. If
this happens, I can run Linux or WinXP for hours without problem. (or
forever, as far as I know; I typically need to switch over a few times every

day.)

I don't really know how to diagnose this.  It seems to be a hardware
overheating problem, yet I don't seem to have problems after the OS boot.
Does anyone have an idea what I could be looking for?

Thanks,
Wayne




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