Laptop automatically reboots multiple times (Ubuntu 10.04)

[Jatin]

On Sunday 02 May 2010 04:42 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 11:18 +0530, Jatin wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> 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 ?
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> Yes it could be this.
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> When you say it rebooted, it did a complete reboot, or only the user
> interface (X.Org) restarted?
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Yes , it did a complete reboot.

Thanks
Jatin