unexpected restart of computer

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Sun, 03 May 2009 09:23:39 -0500
Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> 20090503 0920 GMT-5
> 
> In the past 24 hours, 3 times now my computer has rebooted.
> Well, thats not entirely accurate...
> 
> Just 2 minutes ago I was reading a article on a web site, I moved my 
> cursor up and to the left to back out of that page and my screen 
> instantly turned black. It takes between 5 and 10 seconds and then
> the login screen pops up. So the computer hardware isn't rebooting,
> only the OS.
> 
> Even trying to save your documents every few minutes is difficult on 
> something like this.
> 
> I looked in the logs but I don't see anything that would say
> something occurred.
> 
> Wade

Mine did that for about a year before I found the faulty hard disk. It
was not even the one with the OS I was using. The faulty disk was only
used to store backups, but after removing it, I have not had any more
issues.

Good luck,

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Charlie Kravetz 
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