9.10 and sudden reboots on a Lenovo T60 thinkpad

[J]

n Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 15:03, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 03/04/2010 05:55 AM, Bill Moseley wrote:
>> Nope.  Plus, this is not a normal OS shut-down.  Yesterday, for example, I
>> was composing an email in Chrome/Gmail and the screen just when black and
>> within a second the Thinkpad's BIOS splash screen displayed.  As if the
>> machine was off and I just turned it on to start it up.    Nothing to
>> indicate it was restarting or halting or anything in the logs I could see.

This is going to probably sound like a silly question, but what
happens when Bill does this stuff WITHOUT using Chrome?

The recurring theme I've seen across all Bill's posts so far is Chrome.

So does this sudden shutdown occur at any OTHER times?  For example,
this last post stated using Chrome to compose mail in Gmail.  Does it
occur when working in Gmail via FireFox, or Safari, or Konqueror, or
Opera?

I'm with Mike in thinking it's a memory problem, however, it could
well be something that Chrome is doing that just happens to become
fatal on Bill's system...  It could also be just bad memory, so
running Memtest for a few hours is not a bad idea either (I'd suggest
kicking it off before you go to bed, then checking it for any errors
the next morning, giving it a good 6 - 8 hours of runtime).

Still though, as I said, every post so far has mentioned doing
something in Chrome, yet Bill things Chrome is not an issue... why is
that?  I know it's a long shot, but I have seen stranger things happen
in user-space before...

Cheers
Jeff