[clug-talk] Spontaneous Shut Down

[Cody Swanson]

My 2 cents,

Visually inspect the mainboard, if there are no swollen or leaking 
capacitors then replace the PSU.

Richard Carter wrote:
> Hi Szemir,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.   Perhaps "shutdown" is not the right word.  What 
> happens is not "graceful"!
> The screen goes black and the PC just dies! 
> 
> Robin
> 
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:39 AM, bogi <khangyi at shaw.ca 
> <mailto:khangyi at shaw.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     I think you may have a full / <<root partition or a full /home
>     partition. I
>     don't think a faulty psu would result in a graceful shutdown. A psu
>     taking
>     the power-good signal away might result in a graceful shutdown, but
>     not in
>     case power is really not good :-)
>     Also a shorted out / stuck  reset button can result in a graceful
>     shutdown.
>     Knowing your system i would go for the full partition option first.
>     Cheers
>     Szemir
> 
>     On Wednesday 08 July 2009 09:00:23 Richard Carter wrote:
>      > Hi Folks,
>      >
>      > This morning my desk top PC (amd64, Debian 5.0) began spontaneously
>      > shutting down.  This happens at various times: part way through
>     booting,
>      > while in kde, during back up.  I suspect the power supply has
>     failed.  Does
>      > this sound right?
>      >
>      > Robin Carter
> 
> 
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