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From: snowdog@charm.net (Sean Rolinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI 2.1 STOPING RANDOMLY
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 20:31:25 GMT
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I've seen a similar problem that caused lockup or reboot, but it would
happen all the time, not only on weekdays.  And it was happening on a
Novell Unixware 2.03 box. 

The problem was the the chip fan would randomly stop and allow the
Pentium chip to heatup to a point that the machine would reboot or
lockup completely.  Since the fan was still working randomnly it made
things tougher to troubleshoot.  

If you machine is rebooting on weekdays only and at the same time of
the day, it is more than likely a process/program that is causing the
problem and not a hardware problem.

Sean
snowdog@charm.net


stephen@sysconi.com once said:

> Has anyone seen an issue where bsdi just stops and the main screen
> lockups with no responce at the login prompt, its happening now every
> weekday once a day.
> The only way to reslove it is reboot.

> My system on Friday also rebooted on its own, any ideas would be
> a great help


> thanks

> stephen@sysconi.com