Hi Szemir,<br><br>Thanks for your reply. Perhaps "shutdown" is not the right word. What happens is not "graceful"! <br>The screen goes black and the PC just dies! <br><br>Robin <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:39 AM, bogi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:khangyi@shaw.ca">khangyi@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think you may have a full / <<root partition or a full /home partition. I<br>
don't think a faulty psu would result in a graceful shutdown. A psu taking<br>
the power-good signal away might result in a graceful shutdown, but not in<br>
case power is really not good :-)<br>
Also a shorted out / stuck reset button can result in a graceful shutdown.<br>
Knowing your system i would go for the full partition option first.<br>
Cheers<br>
Szemir<br>
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On Wednesday 08 July 2009 09:00:23 Richard Carter wrote:<br>
> Hi Folks,<br>
><br>
> This morning my desk top PC (amd64, Debian 5.0) began spontaneously<br>
> shutting down. This happens at various times: part way through booting,<br>
> while in kde, during back up. I suspect the power supply has failed. Does<br>
> this sound right?<br>
><br>
> Robin Carter<br>
<br>
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