Laptop automatically reboots multiple times (Ubuntu 10.04)

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 11:18 +0530, Jatin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just installed ubuntu 10.04 yesterday and everything was working fine. 
> All hardwares recognised correctly and everything working fine. I later 
> installed two apps namely k3b and VLC media player. I was watching a 
> movie on my laptop using VLC reading from a DVD and my laptop rebooted 
> automatically. This happened 5 times yesterday. Upon every re-start it 
> was working fine for 15 mins then again it rebooted.
> 
> Can some one tell me what can the issue be ?
> 
> Also one more thing i noted is that my laptop was in a very hot state , 
> could this have led to its reboot ?


Yes it could be this.


When you say it rebooted, it did a complete reboot, or only the user
interface (X.Org) restarted?




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