9.10 and sudden reboots on a Lenovo T60 thinkpad

[Bill Moseley]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:30 AM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

That's nagging me, too.  I'll try and stop using Chrome and see if that
makes a difference.  (Chrome is so much faster than Firefox -- especially
with Firebug enabled in Firefox that it's hard to go back.)

Still, Chrome is running in user land and for it to trigger a hard reboot
w/o the kernel complaining about anything seems unlikely (and, really, a
kernel problem).



> 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).
>

I'm not using my laptop as my main work machine today so I'll fire up the
memtest.


-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
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